On 22/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brett Henderson</b> <<a href="mailto:brett@bretth.com">brett@bretth.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've just started making some edits around Melbourne in Australia (where<br>I live). </blockquote><div><br><br>Yey! More maps!<br> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
However, I have a few questions. Apologies if the info is available<br>somewhere.<br>1. I'm a bit confused between mapnik and osmarender. It seems like<br>mapnik is newer but osmarender has more features. Are there plans to
<br>phase one out or do they target different audiences?</blockquote><div><br><br>They're developed by different people. In my (much disagreed with ;-) ) opinion, osmarender is better geared up for individual maps, for people who want some base to play around with in an image editor etc, whereas mapnik produces better slippy map tiles. This is mostly down to the handling of labels, names etc, which I think mapnik will have a better chance of doing proper placement, overlap avoidnce and things like that. Having said that osmarender's labelling has come on leaps and bounds recently.
<br><br>They both seem to be under active development, so this is probably one of those areas where healthy competition will help everybody!<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2. Are there ways I can force refreshes of the tile data? The Melbourne<br>maps seem pretty old in the slippy viewer both for mapnik and<br>osmarender. I've managed to get the tiles@home application running and<br>can generate tiles, but I'm not sure how to get a login id to upload the
<br>results. I've emailed Owj as mentioned on the wiki but haven't heard<br>anything back yet.</blockquote><div><br><br>for the mapnik layer it refreshes some time after it's viewed -- so if it's very much out of date then no-one has had a look at it for a while. The maximum refresh frequency is about weekly, usually sometime after the planet comes out.
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