[OSM-talk] how to point the openlayers instance to mapnik

[Lambertus]

Lookup the map creating section in the JS code of your website where 
OpenLayers is used. It should look something like this:

map = new OpenLayers.Map(

Then add a new TMS layer pointing to your Mapnik instance. The example 
below shows two of the Mapnik instances used on the Dutch tileserver:

var layerFastNL = new OpenLayers.Layer.TMS(
		"SpeedLayer",
		"http://93.186.180.157/",
                 {type:'png', getURL: get_osm_url,
                 border:1,
                 transitionEffect: 'resize'} );

var layerNL = new OpenLayers.Layer.TMS(
                 "NL (current)",
                 [
"http://a.tile.openstreetmap.nl/tilecache.py/1.0.0/mapnik/",
"http://b.tile.openstreetmap.nl/tilecache.py/1.0.0/mapnik/",
"http://c.tile.openstreetmap.nl/tilecache.py/1.0.0/mapnik/"
                 ],
                 {type:'png', getURL: get_osm_url,
                 border:1,
                 maxExtent: new 
OpenLayers.Bounds(311549.5,6555477.5,822458.8125,7118943.5)}
);

That's about it.


Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been working on doing my own slippy map with mapnik and mod_tile. The 
> documentation mentions the following steps:
> 
>     *  Download the planet file from planet.openstreetmap.org
>     * Import into a PostGIS database using osm2pgsql
>     * Set up mapnik and test using osm.xml and the generate_image.py
>     * Compile and install mod_tile
>     * Run the rendering daemon and ensure it can write to the tile storage 
> directory
>     * Configure your Apache server to load and run the module
>     * Change the OpenLayers instance to point to your server 
> 
> After a long laborious battle I have reached the last stage. I need to point 
> the openlayers instance to my server, but cannot find documentation how to do 
> it. Can anyone point me to this?