[OSM-dev] running a local server

[Keith Sharp]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:09 +0000, David James wrote:
> On Fri, November 2, 2007 12:06 pm, Andy Allan wrote:
> > On 11/2/07, Keith Sharp <kms at passback.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> 4) What are you using to drive Mapnik to do the rendering?  Does this
> >> automagically create the correct directory hierarchy?
> >
> > A modified version of generate_tiles.py from
> > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/generate_tiles.
> > py - yep, it creates tiles in the right hierarchy.
> 
> I'm not sure this is the appropriate place to ask, and I'm very new to OSM
> this, so this may well be a stupid question - what drives the choice
> whether to use Mapnik or Osmarender for a local server? (If this is a FAQ,
> please just point me at an appropriate webpage somewhere.)

For me - Mapnik seemed better documented and simpler to understand when
I started out trying to create my own map.  I've only tried Osmarender a
couple of times and it ate all my CPU and RAM (I guess I was being
ambitious in what I was trying to render).  I've never even looked at
T at H...

Keith.