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

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 2/24/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net> wrote:
> > How does the information in the shapefile get to the user's display?
> Well, Mapnik can read shapefiles directly trough datasource abstraction.

Then why hasn't it been done?

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

Possibly. My point is that generating the land/sea tiles is already in progress.

http://kleptog.org/seatiles/

I have no idea how long it would take to implement your idea (why
wasn't it suggested before when almien asked for it?)

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/