[OSM-talk] Slippy Map update

[Andy Robinson]

David Earl wrote:
>Sent: 22 November 2006 6:52 PM
>To: OSM
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy Map update
>
>Can I suggest again that this would be a great distributed application. I'm


I think that’s a given. It's too early to tell though if it's even going to
be required. When the learning process for turning planet and planet updates
into rendered tiles via mapnik is complete everyone will be in a better
position to see what is needed to keep the map looking sweet. a mapnik at home
type approach may be one of them.


>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-----
>> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
>> [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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