[OSM-talk] Slippy Map update

[David Earl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of Joerg Ostertag (OSM
> Munich/Germany)
> Sent: 22 November 2006 19:10
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy Map update
>
>
> 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.

I looked and gulped.

It's all linux AFAICS. I'm on Windows. I don't have anything like the set up
I'd need to even take the first step I'm afraid. I've got the computing
knowledge to do it, but not the right system. Is it remotely possible that
this would work under cygwin? Does that provide all the dependencies
including the compiler?

(By "easy to install" I mean self-extracting zip or installShield or some
such on Windows, by the way).

David