[OSM-dev] Installing the Rails port.

[Steve Hill]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:

> 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.

I'm already rendering Mapnik tiles for the OpenPisteMap website (so I 
have the PostGIS database already).  However, the OSM site has some nice 
features like the map exporter that I wouldn't mind adding so I was 
trying to guage what I needed to do.

>From what I understand from the wiki, the main OSM data set is in MySQL, 
but I wasn't quite able to work out if I actually needed the MySQL DB for 
the Ruby on Rails website to work, or if I could do without it.

  - Steve
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