[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

[Jim Morgan]

This sounded so good, I thought I'd give it a go this afternoon. However the commands given as typed in the email don't work. I'd recommend reading the long version at the wiki page he references later on: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ubuntu_tile_server

Specifically I found these problems: 

- After adding the repository, you need to do an 'apt-get update' before the next step. 

- Very IMPORTANT. He doesn't mention the configuration step after installing libapache2-mod-tile. According to the wiki you need to "add your own username after www-data in order to import data". As I didn't do this, the renderer did not work. I've also spent about two hours trying to re-configure this setting, and can't find out how to do it. So, yes, read the wiki first. 

- The osm2pgsql misses out the --slim command line element. I also found that I needed to reduce the memory usage, having only 1Gb in my laptop. The --verbose helped as well. so:
	osm2pgsql --slim --cache 300 --verbose philippines.osm.pbm

So what could have been a five minute wonder install has now turned into a three hour marathon for me due to bad instructions. Read the wiki. 

Jim

Eugene Alvin Villar wrote, On Monday, 10 October, 2011 07:07 AM:
> Hi guys,
> 
> This sounds interesting. Rendering and making tiles just for the Philippines is viable on a desktop or even a laptop since the PBF file for the country is only 27 MB.
> 
> Eugene
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Kai Krueger* <kakrueger at gmail.com <mailto:kakrueger at gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:13 AM
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> with the recent need to crack down on tile scrapers and apps to not over
> tax the main OSM tileservers and hosting, there has been a lot of talk
> trying to convince people to set up their own tileserver.
> 
> Although that is of cause by far not the only hurdle to set up your own
> tileserver, one barrier is perhaps the perceived complicated procedure
> to set up all the elements necessary. Although there are a number of
> decent howtos already available on the wiki (perhaps even to many, each
> containing slightly different advice...), it is perhaps still more
> effort than people want to get into.
> 
> In the hope to make this process even simpler, I have created a bunch of
> packages for Ubuntu containing all the necessary software, as well as
> glue packages to deal with the necessary setup and interaction between
> the different components.
> 
> The packages aren't perfect yet, but hopefully sufficiently helpful
> already to be of use to others who are interested in playing around with
> their own tileserver.
> 
> A simple standard tileserver can now be setup in 5 commands in a terminal:
> 
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kakrueger/openstreetmap
> sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-tile
> wget http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/colorado.osm.pbf
> osm2pgsql <http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/colorado.osm.pbf%0Aosm2pgsql> -C 1500 colorado.osm.pbf
> sudo /etc/init.d/renderd restart
> 
> At the end you should have a working tileserver based on mod_tile and
> renderd with the standerd OSM-mapnik stylesheet.
> 
> You can test it out by opening the installed slippymap at
> http://localhost/osm/slippymap.html
> 
> You will of cause want to replace the above lines with the downloading
> and importing of an extract with the extract you care about.
> 
> Although for smaller areas hardware requirements aren't too bad, they
> quickly go up beyond what can be handled by a standard desktop computer.
> My rough guestimate of what a typical desktop / laptop can handle is
> about an extract of 100 - 300 Mb (no more than an hours worth of
> import). This covers most of the US and German states, as well as many
> of the other less densely mapped countries.
> 
> If you are more serious about your tileserver, you will need to tune the
> various configuration settings, but just to play around and for personal
> use, the default settings should work reasonable.
> 
> More information can be found on yet another wiki-page... (
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ubuntu_tile_server )
> 
> Any comments or feedback are welcome,
> 
> Kai
> 
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