[OSM-dev] running a local server

[Nick Whitelegg]

>For a small area either will probably be manageable on a single
>server, but personally i'd use mapnik as it's so much faster and
>friendly to your RAM.

FWIW what I do with Freemap (countryside-orientated UK renderer):

- Import UK OSM data into PostGIS database with osm2pgsql
- Use Mapnik from a small custom C++ application, together with a custom 
Mapnik XML style file, to render the maps and cache them on the server 
(cached for up to a week).

Source code for the custom rendering app available within 
http://www.free-map.org.uk/downloads/freemap.tar.bz2 (look in the "render" 
directory)

Nick