[OSM-talk] new tile goodness

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hello Steve,

Really cool :-) So I didn't spend the last two hours wandering round random 
streets of Southampton on a slightly damp November evening for nothing....

> www.openstreetmap.org now shows artems lovely tiles. They take a while
> to render,

Very quick for me....

> more soon, apologies if you live somewhere not rendered yet. 
> And yes, it's from a slightly old planet.osm.
>
> lot's of obvious improvements to be made.  Openlayers used instead of
> our own javascript.

It *does* seem to use OpenLayers. What's the GoogleLike layer BTW?

Just a few questions....

Is the procedure to generate the tiles documented anywhere? Is there a config 
file used to set the look and feel based on Map Features? One minor point is 
that areas which aren't recognised (eg natural=wood) show as white lines.

I guess there'll be an automated procedure to generate the tiles each time 
planet comes out? Is the idea for *all* tiles to be generated statically on 
dev?

Nick