[Talk-mx] New tile rendering server (Experimental)

[Grant Slater]

Hi Mexico,

**Sorry for this email only being in English. I would appreciate it if
someone could translate this message (or summary) for list members.**

I have just switched the default OpenStreetMap.org “Mapnik style” map
tiles for tile.openstreetmap.org for Mexico across to our new
rendering server.

The new rendering server has been tested and is now ready for
production. We’re migrating traffic over region-by-region and Mexico
is the second region to go live (After Australia + New Zealand).

In addition to new hardware, the rendering server also uses the new
“openstreetmap-carto” stylesheets. These are a complete re-write of
the XML stylesheets to use CartoCSS, making them easier for our
cartographers to work with.

Andy Allan’s great talk at State of the Map US described the reason
for the stylesheet re-write:
http://stateofthemap.us/saturday.html#schedule/saturday/putting-the-carto-into-openstreetmap-cartography

The map tiles will be slightly slower at medium-high zooms while the
server builds up its cache. The style is designed to look the same as
the current XML stylesheet.

The “openstreetmap-carto” stylesheet is maintained here:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto

Big Thank you to #osm-dev for helping draft this announcement.

Kind regards
 Grant Slater
 Part of the OSM Sysadmin Team