[OSM-dev] Kothic JS - a full-featured JavaScript map rendering engine using HTML5 Canvas

Simone Cortesi simone at cortesi.com
Sat Jun 11 12:04:36 BST 2011


On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:47, Komяpa <me at komzpa.net> wrote:
>> That looks quite impressive. Are the vector tiles generated live or are they
>> "pre-rendered"?
>
> Vector tiles are served from cache if it is available there, and are
> generated on the fly if there's nothing in cache. Minsk, the "default
> city" on demo map, is in cache entirely.

I see you suggest here:
https://github.com/kothic/kothic-js/wiki/Tiles-format to use osm2pgsql
PostGIS database to transform osm data to the needed format.

Is there a way to transform a .osm file to a tile vector without going
through postgis?

-- 
-S



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