[OSM-talk] informationfreeway.org "tile URL"?

[Ulf Lamping]

Jason Reid schrieb: 
> As informationfreeway is only a slippymap viewer, you have to use the 
> main tile servers 
> (http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/%0d/%d/%d.png or 
> http://tile.openstreetmap.org/mapnik/%0d/%d/%d.png) that 
> informationfreeway also uses as the repository path (easiest way is to 
> right click on any tile on the map and view the image properties, this 
> will tell you the path). 
First of all, thanks a lot for the quick response! I can already see 
some changes on the N800 I've done this week, which are not included on 
the main map yet :-)

Am I right that the first is the tiles at home tile server (osmarender), 
while the other is the mapnik one?
> There are also proxies setup for the osmarender  tiles, so the path 
> may not always be the one above for the tiles at home layer.
I don't get you here. Do you mean that tah.openstreetmap.org will not be 
available all the time and I should better use a proxy instead?
> You may also notice that it gives errors when trying to download tiles 
> at the absolute lowest zoom levels, this is a known issue that the 
> author of Maemo-mapper was going to investigate a solution for as we 
> don't generate tiles to the maximum zoom level that the program supports. 
Yes, I remember that discussion on the list.
> Due to this, please don't try to bulk load too much, I find the best 
> approach if you know where you are going is to simply quickly scroll 
> around and have it automatically download just those areas. 
To do the mapping I'll need maemo mapper layer 4, to see all details. Is 
it ok to download around 80MB (Nürnberg/Fürth area at layer 4) every few 
days before I go out on a mapping tour?
> It may also be an idea if you want to bulk load a huge amount to setup 
> mapnik locally and generate your own tiles just so you don't overwhelm 
> the tile servers.
Well, is there a real easy guide how to setup such a mapnik OSM 
installation? I would like to setup my own mapnik styles, to include as 
much of map features as possible (currently both t at h and mapnik styles 
just misses lot's of features which makes error checking based on that 
tiles pretty hard). I did exactly that for JOSM's mappaint plugin, which 
vastly improved my mapping experience :-)

However, I'm a Windows only guy and setting up a mapnik server is 
probably beyond my time horizon - at least for now ;-)

Regards, ULFL