[OSM-talk] Making an offline OpenStreetMap CD/DVD ?

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Jueves, 2 de Julio de 2009, Rory McCann escribió:
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> I'm curious if it'd be better to pre-generate all the images before, and
> then you're just serving static files, or if it'd be better to have some
> sort of web server / database / the whole tile rendering shebang on there.

IMHO, it'd be better to have the rendered tiles on the DVD. If you want to 
have a tweaked ubuntu liveDVD with postGIS, mapnik, mod_tile and the whole 
shebang, fine. But I guess that doing so will disrupt the workflow of the 
people using the computer. 

I do think that you should experiment with setting up your own tile server, 
and run generate_tiles.py for Africa - that will get you directories full of 
tiles, ready to be burned into a DVD along with a small OpenLayers webpage. 

My guesstimation is that you could fit the tiles for the whole of Africa up to 
zoom 12 o 13 in a DVD.


Cheers,
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