[OSM-talk] Slippy Map update

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Thu Nov 23 11:14:21 GMT 2006


* @ 23/11/06 12:43:36 AM jburgess at uklinux.net wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 00:07 +0000, SteveC wrote:
> 
> > Mapnik needs some work to minimise the amount of data it spits out.
> > There are a lot of blank land/sea tiles that should be symlinks to just
> > one. Odds and ends like that.
> > 
> 
> I noticed that too and was going to have a go at fixing that. No need to
> run convert multiple times on all those identical tiles too. 

Brilliant, please do :-)

> Plus it is great to be able to have a nice big fast rendered map running
> locally with no lag.

Once you have it in the db you can use the mapnik interactive app to
browse :-)

I think.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/




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