[OSM-talk] mapnik and openlayers?

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Chris Jones <rollercow at sucs.org> wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Grant Slater
>> <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am trying to use the turbogears widget for openlayers and I'm having
>>>> hard time figuring out how to point to openstreetmaps.org tiles.
>>>>
>>>> One of the examples they have:
>>>>  ol = WMS(name="OpenLayers WMS",
>>>>       url=["http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0"],
>>>>       options = {'layers':'basic'})
>>>>
>>>> what would be a corresponding one for http://tile.openstreetmap.org/ ?
>>>>
>>>> Do I use WMS? I can't seem to find the settings to use with
>>>> mapnik...tiles.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> See:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Simple_Example
>>>
>>
>> The example you pointed to uses TMS. Can I use WMS and mapnik?
>>
>
> I'm sure you can, but you will probably have to run it yourself.

So its safe to assume that TMS is what mapnik provides? (only) and if
I want WMS I would have to create that service on my server?


Lucas