[Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK
Graham Jones
grahamjones139 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 23:32:23 GMT 2011
I forgot a third possible way around it - generate standard image tiles
using Mapnik, and use Mapnik MetaWriters to provide data files for the
popups - again I have not tried this one, but it would probably be the
simplest way of getting to a larger area map with the least coding work
required.
Graham.
On 15 November 2011 23:27, Graham Jones <grahamjones139 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sven, Brian,
> There are two reasons that this only works for the UK (or really the UK
> and Ireland) at the moment:
>
> - My OSM database only covers this region. It could probably cope
> with a larger area (maybe Europe), but I have never tried - it is running
> on my old Laptop so it is not particularly powerful (but does use <20W, and
> I worry about my Carbon footprint!).
> - The method that I use to produce the map would not scale well to
> large areas - there is a single file for each feature for the entire area,
> so if I make the area larger the download time for the files could become
> very large, and make the map feel unresponsive. (I think that I will
> struggle even to extend the maps to uk pubs, because the pub data file is
> over 9MB, which would need downloading every time a user views the map.
> There are ways around this:
> - Split the data into different files for different areas
> (basically cut it into tiles like we do map images).
> - Use a database on the server and extract only the data covering
> the area being displayed - could be done, but I do not have the code to
> keep a mySql database on a remote server up to date with OSM data.
>
> I think that these could be solved, but it will mean a change to the data
> handling system. If you are interested in developing one of these, let
> me know and we can collaborate on it.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Graham
>
> On 15 November 2011 15:48, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Whilst I originally envisaged this as a UK project, what Sven has brought
>> up does suggest that it has a global perspective, but I doubt if Graham's
>> time or server could cope with something that large. The wine industry is
>> certainly global and Heineken( not real ale I know!) has 115 plants in 65
>> countries. Food (or drink) for thought ;-)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
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> Graham Jones
> Hartlepool, UK.
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Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK.
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