[OSM-talk] Running my own slippy map

[Tom Chance]

Yoho,

On Monday 23 October 2006 12:34, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> What you could do is run Freemap on your server; that would basically be a
> case of downloading the Freemap source from subversion, changing the
> username and password information in the config file and off you go - a
> slippy map based on osm data. It can use a local planet-based database, a
> .osm file or the live API as its data source.
>
> The big disadvantage of this is that Freemap is geared for countryside
> rendering - it doesn't look great in towns. To get an idea of what Freemap
> looks like see http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/. If you (or
> anyone else) are interested I can supply detailed installation
> instructions.

I like the simplicity of your instructions =) But Freemap isn't really the 
output I'd want for this, as you note. Why is your process so simple, when 
the wiki seems to suggest that OpenLayers needs mapserver with data 
downloaded from NASA and all sorts of other work to go from an .osm file to a 
slippy map?

What would be best is if I could get something using pre-rendered Osmarender 
tiles, but I forget who was experimenting with that technique on this list. 
The only real shortcomings of PDFs + PNGs is the lack of ability to zoom and 
browse, whilst the output that I hand-tailor from Osmarender is really quite 
attractive :)

Regards,
Tom

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