[OSM-talk] Missing tiles?

[Lukasz Szybalski]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Joseph Gentle <josephg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ok That is a little too much considering I can buy 500gb drive for
>>> $70, so storage is max 500, now 50gb I can spare.
>>
>> If you want you can use mod_tile or the CGI tile server to just
>> generate tiles on-demand.
>>
>>> What would be a bbox for:
>>> http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.231745,92.109375&t=h&z=4
>>>
>>> bbox=(37.0625,-95,36.23,92.10)
>>>
>>> Is google zoom reasonably close or same as in mapnik? From google it
>>> would seem zoom max 15 should be enough for what I need.
>
> From:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.231745,92.109375&z=4
> ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=36.231745,92.109375
> to
> Its about lat: 23 - 59, long: -140 - -64
>
> How did you get these numbers, they are not really the same as
> google.com numbers?
> or should I use "permalink"?
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.6&lon=-96.6&zoom=5&layers=B000FFF
> but it doesn't give me a high low +-?
>
> What is the best way for me to figure out lat and long of the area I want to do.
> US,CAN,MEX?
> Or maybe 2 states:
> IL,IN,
> Should I follow google?
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=40.979898,-87.231445&spn=8.639252,23.027344&z=6
> What would be the corresponding lat and long for above link?

Any idea where I can get a quick reference on a geographic area and
the long lat boundaries as described above?

Lucas