[OSM-dev] [Talk-GB] Automating Freemap tile rendering

[Artem Pavlenko]

On Friday 23 February 2007 23:12, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net> wrote:
> > Martijn,
> > (Assuming you're talking about storing coastline as a separate set of
> > tiles) Why do we need land/seatiles when this can be solved with one
> > shapefile?
>
> How does the information in the shapefile get to the user's display?
Well, Mapnik can read shapefiles directly trough datasource abstraction. 
> It has to rendered somewhere... The shapefiles for coastlines are
> huge.
Not really :). Just use spatial index.

For osmarender you could write shp to svg transformer (shapelib??) or even 
better store coastlines in postgis and use asSVG(geometry).

Cheers,
Artem

>
> Have a nice day,