[OSM-talk] Things People Say

[Michal Migurski]

On Dec 28, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 12/28/11 14:56, Thomas Davie wrote:
>> I think this actually may be an opportunity for OSM to make some
>> money.  Could we not (given the appropriately motivated person, and I
>> freely admit I'm not he) set up distributing images for servers that
>> are able to run right out the box... Want to run OpenStreetMap?
>> Download this iso, clone it into a VM or onto a real machine, boot,
>> access http://<machines-ip>/ and there's your map, all set up and
>> ready to go.
> 
> There's "TileDrawer" already, where you can download ready-made Amazon images for free, and there's a series of Ubuntu packages by Kai Krueger that you just have to install to get a tile server. Or, for smaller-scale operations, you can even use Maperitive for an out-of-the-box solution. And many of us, including myself, spend time answering questions for free on the lists, on help.osm, and elsewhere.

*embarassed that Tile Drawer doesn't actually work at the moment and has it on the to-do list to fix this week or next*

-mike.

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