[OSM-talk] Low zoom render requests for the Sudan

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 30 Jan 2008, at 22:16, Rob Reid wrote:

> Neil Penman wrote the following on 31/01/2008 02:07:
>> I've been loading routes provided by the United
>> Nations for the Southern
>> Sudan and the UN has invited us to demonstrate these
>> OSM maps at a UN
>> conference in early February.  Ideally the maps should
>> be available on
>> line, although we probably will also show off line
>> images.
>>
>> Unfortunately the Mapnik data is only half there (this
>> week) and doesn't
>> render at all at zoom level 6 and below. These are all
>> long highways,
>> there is not much detail that is worth zooming in for
>> at the moment.
>> I've installed tiles at home and am waiting for a
>> password to upload
>> generated images, however I'm not sure if I can
>> generate tiles for zoom
>> level 6 at the moment. It looks like I can only
>> generate down to zoom
>> level 8 using ./tilesGen.pl xy 151 118 8   (etc).
>>
>> Can I do the same at zoom level 6?
>>
> After some discussion on irc I have started doing some T at H zoom8-11
> lowzooms in  South Sudan around Juba.
> Once we have some current z8 tiles then zooms below 8 can be generated
> using lowzoom.pl which you will find under the tools dir if you  
> already
> have tiles at home.
> This script basically just pulls the z8 tiles, stitches them together
> and scales them which is why you need to do the z8 tiles first.
> The comments on irc suggested this was required for presentation to UN
> by Monday, anyone else up for some lowzoom rendering?

curl http://osmxapi.hypercube.telascience.org/api/0.5/map? 
bbox=27,2.5,37,18 > sudan.osm
~/projects/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/osm2pgsql -a -d openstreetmap  
sudan.osm

I can render all these tiles if there's still interested.


>
> cheers
>
> rcr

Cheers
Artem



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