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

[Jo]

Gervase Markham schreef:
>>>> 2. What do I need? PostgreSQL? Python? What else?
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>>> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik
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>> It's rather short. Is it really that simple...? 
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>
> 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?
>   
I'm familiar with setting up Postgres and importing a dump file into it. 
So that didn't put me off. I must admit though that I didn't try it yet. 
It might prove harder than I can foresee right now.

Polyglot