[OSM-dev] Generate tiles with generate_tiles.py

[Sven Geggus]

Vince Berubey <screams_3 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> For example, I download an .osm.bz2  from Cloudmade, the map of
> "Ile-De-France"=Paris
> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/western_europe/france/ile-de-france#downloads_breadcrumbs
> I would like to call generate_tyles.py from another language. I want to
> pass the bounding box values as arguments, but I don't want to go in the
> "Import Tab" of OpenStreetMap and manually select the area.

Are you rendering directly from the osm file or do you import the data to
postgis? If so you can get the bounding box of all data from postgis using
ST_Envelope.

Sven

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