[OSM-dev] Layered Tiling (Mapnik)

Stephan Plepelits skunk at xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Dec 27 16:44:43 GMT 2010


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 04:22:08PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Has anyone done some experimentation in that direction? I know that  
> Nop's riding+walking map uses three layers (OSM background, third-party  
> hillshading, OSM foreground), and of course I've seen the grand  
> ImageMagick-based TopOSM. Has anyone tried a multi-overlay tile server  
> in Mapnik?
http://www.openstreetbrowser.org is an example with base map, several
overlays for routes and other thematic overlays.

The new version http://dev.openstreetbrowser.org even supports creating own
mapnik style via the web interface. The big problem is rendering speed,
because of the full planet database.

greetings,
        Stephan
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