[OSM-talk] OSM Article

[Richard Fairhurst]

SteveC wrote:

> OL is the slippy map on the front page. The rest of it is custom ruby
> on rails.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Component_overview
is helpful.

(The main editors are JOSM [Java] and Potlatch [Flash]; the main  
renderers are Mapnik [C++] and Osmarender [XSLT/SVG]. There are also  
significant MySQL and Apache extensions. Pretty much everything is  
OSM-specific except for Mapnik.)

cheers
Richard