[OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

[Jo]

2011/10/27 Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com>:
> On 10/26/2011 04:58 PM, Jo wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> This is setup on my portable and I was wondering: Do I have to set a
>> cron job for the tiles-update-expire to run every hour? What happens
>> when I switch off my portable. Will the changes of the past night all
>> be applied with the first run of the tiles-update-expire script? Or
>> should I run this script every 20 minutes, in the morning, so it can
>> catch up?
>
> In its current version, the tiles-update-expire script runs the osmosis
> minutely replication task once. As the default of osmosis is to only
> collect one hour of minutely diffs at a time, this script will only
> update the db by up to an hour per invocation. So if you are more than
> one hour behind, you will need to run it multiple times to catch up.
>
> I should fix the script to include the while loop within the script so
> that if there are still more data to fetch it will automatically do that
> and you would only need to call the script once to be fully up-to-date
> again.

It would be nicer if it worked that way, indeed.
>
>>
>> I've been running it almost continuously for the past few hours and it
>> always seems to have a lot of work to do...
>
> You are probably quite a number of hours behind the db after the initial
> import. Either because the import takes a while, or because your extract
> is a day or so old.

I added it to crontab, so it runs every 20 minutes now. Is it a
problem for the servers when it is run so often?
>
>>
>> Anyway, now I'll have to work on adding layers for cycling, hiking,
>> horseback and bus routes and their stylesheets.
>
> Have fun with that.

Hehe, I will (I hope), but I asked openstreetmap.nl for their style
sheets as a starting point.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks for making this possible,
>
> It is great to see that this seems to help people set up their own tile
> servers and play with the possibilities.

Well, it doesn't stop with me. I announced it on our mailing list (to
present it at an informal meet up) and there is at least one more
person interested in this as well.

Cheers,


Jo