[OSM-talk] rendering with mapnik, what do I need?

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Chris Jones <rollercow at sucs.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Jo wrote:
>
>
> >>> 2. What do I need? PostgreSQL? Python? What else?
>  >>
>  >> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik
>  > It's rather short. Is it really that simple...? How often is the planet file
>  > generated? Say I would like to have daily updates instead of weekly. Is that
>  > possible? I guess I should just try it...
>
>  You can complecate it more if you want to render things on demand rather
>  than prerender everything, but thats basicly all thats needed produce a
>  bunch of tiles.

See also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Deploying_your_own_Slippy_Map

>  There are daily and even hourly 'diffs', i dont know if osm2pgsql or any
>  other tool can update the mapnik database useing them though.

I'm not sure, but you can always apply the diffs to the planet file
itself and re-import.

Cheers,
Andy