[OSM-talk] osmarendered map tiles (tiles at home)

[OJW]

The osmarender maps tiles are now available as a layer on the slippy-map 
(press the "+" icon, then "osmarender"), so here's a bit of info about what's 
generating the mysterious new tiles:

It's a distributed rendering project, so if you want to help-out, download the 
tiles at home client, run it, it will generate a tileset (takes about 2 hours to 
do a 10km area) and upload that to the server.  

Project page, instructions, development areas etc. are at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tiles%40home

You need a password to upload tiles, so email me to get one.  (or email higgy)

It will ask the server which tile needs rendering next, but you can specify a 
particular location to render if you want your own city to be updated faster.

The software is still in development, so check back regularly for updates 
(e.g. there will be new osmarender files, and they don't get downloaded 
automatically yet)

Thanks to 80n and higgy, who've been involved in developing the software and 
servers respectively.

Regards

OJW