[OSM-talk] Slippy Map update

[David Earl]

Can I suggest again that this would be a great distributed application. I'm
sure many of us would be willing to have our computer idle time put to good
use with a program which grabs the next tile requiring rendering, downloads
the data, processes it and uploads the image. Obviously marks the tile as
"in progress at <time>" and is back in the queue if the agent that offerred
fails to render it after a certain time.

This would much more up to date rendering and to higher detail.

Ideally the renderer would be an easy to install package for widest takeup.
It could have a setting to say how long it is allowed to run for (e.g. 4
hours), and started at a certain time by cron on linux or windows scheduler
in windows, which is easiest, but better in Windows would be to hook it to
the screensaver and kill it when the screensaver is cancelled.

David

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of Andy Robinson
> Sent: 22 November 2006 18:40
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Slippy Map update
>
>
> SteveC spent the day working on planet-postgresql and Mapnik from a fresh
> start. More on that here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_Map
>
> The end result is that there is now some basic rendering over parts of
> Europe and specifically Germany. Currently only a few zoom levels are
> available:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=48.09530109555827&lon=
> 11.7885777
> 47272832&zoom=12
>
> Note the wonderfully broken name for München. Clearly some Character
> encoding issues to resolve.
>
> Expect more to follow but it’s a slow process getting it all set up.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Robinson
> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
>
>
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