[Talk-in] [Free Map] Anybody knows what is Tiles at home?

[Mikel Maron]

Tiles at Home is one of the two main rendering systems. The other is Mapnik. 

You can switch between these two renderings on the main map. Open the layers control (the plus in the upper-right corner of the map) and select "osmarender".
Here's an example.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.9605&lon=77.5885&zoom=12&layers=0BFT

Mapnik is the more sophisticated rendering engine, but it only rerenders tiles once per week.
Tiles at Home renders constantly, and you can even make explicit re-render requests at http://www.informationfreeway.org/

Tiles at Home is a distributed program .. many people run instances on their own machines, and tile requests are distributed among all the instances.
This technique was first popularized with SETI at Home. I'd encourage people in OSM India to look into this.

-Mikel

----- Original Message ----
From: shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com>
To: freemap-workshop at lists.crit.org.in
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2008 9:11:22 AM
Subject: [Free Map] Anybody knows what is Tiles at home?

Hi all,
 Today while browsing came to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tiles@home can somebody make
sense of it? How do people benefit from it?

-- 
          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal
  This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3  8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17
---

OpenStreetMap India / Free Map 
Workshops Mailing List

2008 Workshops: http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/FreeMapIndia2008

2007 Workshops: http://wiki.freemap.in/moin.cgi/HbcseWorkshop

Mailing List: http://freemap.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freemap-workshop

Workshop Photos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/freemap



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/attachments/20080309/3c00ac57/attachment.html>