[OSM-dev] [OSM] Informations about osmarender for Google SoC

[Martijn Pannevis]

I'm really in favor of having an easier way of getting maps in different 
styles.
However, I do have one question: The current discussion seems to lean 
towards Osmarender. Personally I'd rather see a Mapnik style editor. I 
do realize that serving maps with different styles takes computing power 
on the server end, rather than on the client end, but I do think that a 
setup where custom maps are generated on a server makes more sense: Also 
because larger map sets will usually be served from some server, 
generating them on the server for me makes more sense.
Maybe I'm missing things here, and can Osmarender also be used with 
stuff like tilecache, or the styleformats are interchangable (Not that I 
know off), but otherwise personally I'd rather see a mapnik frontend 
than an osmarender one.
Anyone has some insight in the advantages of using osmarender for custom 
tiles?
Kind Regards,
Martijn Pannevis.