[OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

[Matt Amos]

2009/3/27 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> El Jueves, 26 de Marzo de 2009, Milo van der Linden escribió:
>> > You're wrong - mapnik depends on a local PostgreSQL database, not on the
>> > OSM API.
>>
>> The current Infrastructure where hunderds of mapnik/postgresql/postgis
>> servers pull data from the osm api-db, turn it into tiles and serve these to
>> thousands of end clients is an efficient structure.
>
> AFAIK, right now the mapnik-based renderers fetch the data from planet diffs,
> push it into a PGSQL DB through osmosis and a cronjob, then let mapnik render
> the tiles.

almost. the standard toolchain for mapnik db loading uses osm2pgsql,
not osmosis. the diffs are exported from the db using osmosis, though.

for what its worth i agree that WMS isn't innovative or interesting,
but it does have widespread support. (fsov "support")

cheers,

matt