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

[Gervase Markham]

>>> 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...? 

I'm surprised by that reaction... I just read the Mapnik page and 
thought "that's flipping complicated".

Mapnik itself, judging by http://www.mapnik.org/, seems to regard the 
whole PosgreSQL thing as optional. Is there any way of getting OSM data 
into a format Mapnik will render without having to set up a database?

Gerv