[OSM-dev] Installing the Rails port.

[Steve Hill]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jon Burgess wrote:

> There are a large number of components involved with the slippy map and
> export tab. These all use data from the API, the Mapnik or Osmarender
> tile servers and these all have different setup requirements. If you
> want more details then you need to be more specific on what exactly you
> want to achieve.

Currently, OpenPisteMap uses a fairly simple web page with OpenLayers to 
display the Mapnik tiles.  My intention is to replace that web page with 
one that will give me search and export functions using my existing Mapnik 
tiles and PostGIS database.  OpenPisteMap uses the OSM dataset, imported 
into PostGIS from the planet file about once a month and the Mapnik tiles 
are rendered from that database.

Presumably the bits which use the OSM API can query the main API server 
(no need to run my own copy of the API)?

  - Steve
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