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

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Dane Springmeyer <blake at hailmail.net>wrote:

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> On May 28, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
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> > 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.
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>
Don't I need to set up a PostGIS database et al. for that to work? That
seems rather heavy for a simple "draw lines on a screen" application.
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