[OSM-dev] Map of the whole world, starting with europe

[Dave Stubbs]

On 05/12/2007, Diarmuid Wrenne <dwrenne at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> Re. the OSM project.
>
> I came across this page on the wiki about  Little-osm. The page is not
> clear, but will this allow me to run a webserver that will display the
> street maps that I see on the openstreetmap.org home page.
>

What you probably want is osm2pgsql which will move the data into a
postgis database which you can then render. The OSM front page uses a
renderer called mapnik (http://www.mapnik.org/) to produce the tiles.

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik for how you might
go about this.