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

[Neil Penman]

Absolutely,  thanks Artem.  It will be good to see
what it looks like.

Regards

Neil
Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> 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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