[OSM-dev] My own Tiling of maps

[Jon Burgess]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 04:41 -0700, Diarmuid Wrenne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a set of old maps that I would like to use with my Nokia 770
> and maemo mapper (as well as display on the web).
> 
> I have loked at Mapnik on the wiki and it seems that it would work.
> However, I am wondering about how to add the maps to the system. Is it
> a case of just using postgis to get some sort of georectified images
> into postrgres and then run mapnik over this data to generate the
> tiles.

Perhaps you mis-understand the role of Mapnik within the toolchain.
Mapnik takes raw topological map data such as roads defined as sets of
lat/long co-ordinates and applies a rendering style to produce a bitmap
image. Mapnik is not a tool to turn a scanned image into a set of tiles.

Do you want other map data appearing on top of your old maps?

If what you want is to make your maps appear on-line or as a set of
tiles for maemo-mapper to download then you may want to look at
something like:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/New_Popular_Edition
http://www.npemap.org.uk/



	Jon