[Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

[Dane Springmeyer]

On May 31, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Dane Springmeyer  
> <blake at hailmail.net> wrote:
>
> On May 28, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
>
> > It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a  
> simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and  
> then rendered your viewbox on the fly rather than creating raster  
> tiles.
>
> Just use Mapnik and don't catch the tiles.
>
>
> Don't I need to set up a PostGIS database et al. for that to work?

That's the highest performance approach, but it is certainly feasible  
to pull from osm XML data directly:

http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/OsmPlugin


> That seems rather heavy for a simple "draw lines on a screen"  
> application.

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