[Talk-GB] OSM Countryside Maps: would anyone be willing to participate in a tiles at home style effort?

[Nick Whitelegg]

I'm getting towards the stage now where my Mapnik-generated Freemap maps 
(OSM maps for the UK countryside) can be put on a slippy map. However I'm 
also at the point where I need to decide how to handle the rendering. 
Unlike the main slippy map I only intend on having two zoom levels: 100 
pixels/km and 200 pixels/km (approximately the same scale as Landranger 
1:50000 and Explorer 1:25000, at least on my screen)

One option is to generate the tiles live on demand on dev from planet, 
using caching to prevent tiles being generated dynamically on every 
request.

The other option is to use a tiles at home style option where people generate 
tiles on their machine and upload.

This will have bearing on how the final code will look. Option one will 
involve a collection of shell scripts and small C++ programs, as it won't 
need to have a user-friendly interface. For option two, I would favour a 
single C++ program, easily runnable by tiles at home-type clients - the 
eventual aim being a .exe on Windows machines with a GUI.

So in view of that, please let me know if you would be interested in a 
tiles at home-type effort, so I can decide which coding path to follow.

Thanks,
Nick