[talk-au] Rendering your own maps

[John Smith]

Over the past few days I've been documenting the exact steps needed to
setup, run and maintain your own map rendering system. If the area is
small enough you can even do it in a virtual machine, and a vmware
image will be published at some point so all you need to do is
download, run and tell it the area of the planet you are actually
interested in.

http://wiki.sharedmap.org/wiki/Rendering_At_Home

We have been given permission from Archive.org to store map tiles on
their systems, however scripts are still being tweaked to make this as
simple and straight forward that anyone with a little technical
experience would have no problems using. Some details about the
current thoughts on how to best to achieve this based on a few
limitations:

http://wiki.sharedmap.org/wiki/ArchiveOrg

This should make it possible and easy for anyone that wants tiles for
a custom style sheet.

We have a proof of concept map page running:

http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html

While there is tiles for most of the planet up to z6, as a test we
published some z21 tiles for Sydney, only to find out the default
style sheet does very poorly beyond about z18 with roads disappearing
and all sorts of weird things, the only thing that still looked ok was
polygons that get rendered.