[OSM-talk] Slippy Map update

[Dutch]

In that case, instead of reinventing the wheel, contact should be made
to the BOINC project, and a BOINC client developed for the distributed
rendering.

Dutch


2006/11/22, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>:
> 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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