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

[Michael Cole]

WOW looks like a project to do here also..

Thanks for the heads up guys..

Regards Michael

On Monday 10 October 2011 8:03:06 pm Jim Morgan wrote:
> 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%0Aos
> > m2pgsql> -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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