[OSM-talk] Running my own slippy map

[Johnny Doe]

--- Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:

> 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?
> 

To be efficiently served by mapserver, the Landsat
raster data should be reprojected to the
WGS84/World_Mercator coordinate
system and the "osm" vector data converted into
tiled/indexed shapefile.
This is basic GIS stuff.
It seems that the people running OSM project reject
everything GIS-related, and insist on using XML.
Even when it does not make sense and requires 12GB RAM

for parsing alone (i have tried it on a 32GB RAM
machine with the latest planet-2006*.osm file).


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