[OSM-dev] Beautiful maps for a travel blog & reviews site

jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 30 07:05:15 BST 2010


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Joe Richards <geojoelists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unique colours/look and feel - we already have that, but perhaps it's time
> to give up our own map rendering engine and look at Mapnik etc.  We can
> create a tile server, although obviously avoiding so would be desirable if
> it can be done without causing too much impact on any one source server
> (perhaps we can retrieve and cache tiles)

mapnik is going to needs its own server for rendering. no way to put
that on the main server if you have any load. mapnik is very very
hungry.

mike



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