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

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

Am Samstag, 1. März 2008 18:27:42 schrieb Jo:
> Gervase Markham schreef:
> >>>> 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?
>
> 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.

Setting up the mapnik database should be as easy as to run the 
	 mapnik-osm-updater.sh 
script. This script will set everything up including creation of users, 
database and downloading planet File)

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