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

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

some quick thoughts :
you could use a mapserver to server wms data created from osm files,
you can also use openlayers to render vector data on the fly.
mike

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> 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. If the iPhone can
> do a passable realtime rendering job for Skobbler, then a heftier machine
> should be able to do it at a higher resolution.
> I realize that editors do this already, but how hard would it be to pull the
> editor cruft from around the rendering engine?
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>>
>> Expanding the bounding box to include all of Maine, (and all that
>> empty ocean, plus some Quebec and New Brunswick) would double or
>> triple the totals.
>
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