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

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:21:04PM +0000, Gervase Markham 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...? 
> 
> 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?

There is active ongoing development to support rendering with mapnik
directly from a .osm file, I believe.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta