[OSM-dev] Installing the Rails port.

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

If you are planning to serve up a custom map then you need to render your
own tiles, and for that you will probably want a database backend unless you
plan to deliver only a very small area of the world. The three rendered
versions on the OSM website all use a different process, although both the
default and the cycle layer use mapnik, but not the same database. The
website itself runs with Ruby on Rails. The export, browse and search
functions are all special components, the search facility for instance has a
separate database interface.

Doing a search on the wiki for the individual components will help explain
how it all works under the hood.

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org]
>On Behalf Of Steve Hill
>Sent: 11 July 2008 3:14 PM
>To: dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-dev] Installing the Rails port.
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>I'm a bit confused by what is actually required to run the website bit of
>OSM (not the API - just the slippymap viewer, export tab, etc) - does it
>need they MySQL database (with the planet imported into it), or can it be
>run without?
>
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