[OSM-talk] Static osmarender tile generation

[raphael Jacquot]

Nick Burch wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, David Earl wrote:
>> Of course, it would be rather large if the whole world were attempted,
> 
> Only thing to realise is projection issues - you tweak that in osmarender, 
> but the value you give is only suitable for a certain (smallish) area. So, 
> to do the world, you would need to do it in lots of little chunks, 
> tweaking the osmarender projection as you go, then doing some sort of 
> magic to get it to all fit together afterwards....
> 
> 
> As for the "rendering the whole world" thing, I think David Sheldon had a 
> plan for rendering all the UK main roads on EC2 in a few hours every 
> month, shifting the rendered tiles off somewhere else once built. The only 
> trouble with using that sort of approach for these tiles is the large 
> bandwidth charges shifting the large number of tiles off EC2 to be hosted.
> 
> Nick

it all depends on the projection used.
mercator is good for that kind of thing as it generates the world in a
nice square shape that can be generated in sizes multiples of powers of
two ;D