[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Software development - most pressing issues

[Tom Hughes]

In message <474EE8B6.5050300 at firefishy.com>
        Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:

> Tom Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> Tilegen [1] is currently sitting idle AFAIK, ready for someone to
>>> plug it into the Mapnik rendering system. [2]
>>
>> The distributed Mapnik rendering system that we don't have you mean ;-)
>
> I wasn't thinking about a full distributed Mapnik rendering system here.
>
> My idea for TileGen here was along the lines of;
>
> 1) Give TileGen access to the postgresql and mysql databases on tile.
> 2) Have tilegen, run a loop rendering dirty flagged tiles.
> 3) Profit :-)
>
> I'm game, unless someone else more competent volunteers.

How are you planning to interlock tile and tilegen to stop them
both trying to render the same tile (which is a bit pointless)?

For bonus points describe how you will do it in the upcoming
mod_tile environment where there is no mysql database.

Tom

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