[OSM-talk] Downloading lots of tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org

[Keith Sharp]

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 15:49 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
> On 12/11/2007, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
> <openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
> > Wouldn't it make sense to convince people to install there own mapnik for
> > doing stuff like this? It's not that difficult to do so. Just install the
> > debian packages and start the import ....
> 
> damn gmail, re-posting to list....
> 
> that's a fantastic idea. unfortunately, the instructions to getting
> mapnik are not exactly simple to follow, there's lots of hand-editing
> of config files, and it takes a looooooooong time.
> 
> is there a project underway to make this as easy as installing a
> single package, and then running an 'update data' command within some
> nice gui?

To blow my own trumpet:

	http://www.passback.org.uk/maps/fedora.shtml

Some of the packages are a little out of date now, but it should mostly
still work.

Keith.