[OSM-dev] Using custom renderer with mod_tile

[Skye Book]

Kai,

Thanks for the clear explanation.. That meshes well with what I understood from reading the wiki and cursory looks at source code

-Skye

On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:

> 
> Skye Book wrote
>> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> I was under the impression that Tirex sat behind mod_tile.. It's meant to
>> replace it?
>> 
> 
> There is often a lot of confusion about the naming around mod_tile and what
> it is.
> 
> mod_tile it self is an apache module that is responsible for serving tiles
> and deciding which tiles are out of date and need re-rendering. mod_tile
> however doesn't do any rendering itself and is thus agnostic to the
> underlying rendering.
> 
> mod_tile talks to a rendering backend via a (tcp?) socket.
> 
> Currently there are two different rendering backends, "renderd" and "tirex".
> Renderd was the original rendering backend and its source directory lives in
> the mod_tile directory of the openstreetmap svn directory. Therefore
> mod_tile and renderd are often not properly distinguished. Renderd only
> supports mapnik as a renderer.
> 
> Tirex is a replacement for renderd and works together with mod_tile.
> (Although there might also be a replacement component for mod_tile, I am not
> sure).
> 
> Tirex is more flexible with respect to the actual renderer and it currently
> has plugins to render tiles via mapnik, mapserver or WMS. I am also
> currently working on a geojson vector "renderer" for tirex and it is
> relatively easy to extend it with further rendering plugins depending on
> your needs. tiles.osm.org however continues to use renderd for rendering.
> 
> So in case you don't want to use mapnik for rendering, you are probably best
> off with the combination of mod_tile and tirex.
> 
> Kai
> 
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