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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Sven,<div>I was a looking for a way to generate tiles on the fly on windows, so I would not have to use the generate_tiles.py.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards.</div><div><br><br><div>> To: dev@openstreetmap.org<br>> From: lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de<br>> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:39:49 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile on windows?<br>> <br>> Vince Berubey <screams_3@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Has any development been done since to be compatible with Windows?<br>> <br>> Besides the fact that I do not see a particular good reason for running a<br>> tileserver on windows (mapnik works fine on windows, so style development<br>> can already take place on windows), I seriously doubt, that this will<br>> currently work.<br>> <br>> One reason for this is, that mod_tile uses a unix-domain socket to<br>> communicate with the backend (tirex/renderd). So one would need at least<br>> convert this to a tcp/socket.<br>> <br>> IMO, there is better work to do for mod_tile. One thing that comes to mind<br>> is the still unimplemented whitelist feature for tile trotteling, which I<br>> would have needed recently.<br>> <br>> This said I'm quite certain that Kai would not mind to take patches which<br>> will actaually make it work on windows. It's free software after all.<br>> <br>> Regards<br>> <br>> Sven<br>> <br>> P.S.: In this live I will probably not understand anymore, why people<br>> actually _want_ to use windows. Bad enough, that one is still forced to use<br>> it way to often.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly"<br>> (Henry Spencer)<br>> <br>> /me is giggls@ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> dev mailing list<br>> dev@openstreetmap.org<br>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev<br></div></div> </div></body>
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