[Openstreetmap] Re: landsat background to the static renderer

[Tom Carden]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
> Well, Freemap displays contour lines. Originally they were generated on 
> the
> fly with PHP, but this was a little slow where there are a lot of contours
> on the map. Now I pre-generate contour tiles from the NASA data and 
> display
> the appropriate one depending on the current location. The contour code
> used in the pre-generation program is the same as that used in osm-editor
> (C++ based). If contours were to be added to the OpenStreetMap interface,
> that would probably be the way to go.
>

IIRC Freemap uses OS grid references - I assume that's what you're using for 
your tiles?

Any idea how to go about pre-rendering tiles for the entire globe?

Tom.