[OSM-talk] Slippy Map update

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 19:51, David Earl wrote:
> 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.

Well, you can help make the renderer as easy to install as you described.
We are currently trying to install the renderer (by hand ) on some machines.  
Steve was one of the first successful ones on dev.osm.com. Ralf_Z, me, and 
others are trying to do so too. So you can join us to try to install the 
renderer on your machine. And give feedback on @dev where the problems are to 
install this on other machines. The description on how to do it can be found 
at:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_Map#Getting_planet.osm_in_to_the_db
If this test was successful, we (you, me, and others, ) can start to make the 
installation more compact and easier. This would involve to write small 
scripts which will do the job we're just doing by hand.
And if this is done we can try to setup in parallel a mechanism which is 
distributing the "to-be-rendered" tiles to the volunteers.

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Joerg