[OSM-talk] Tile Drawer now plays nicely with TileMill

[Mike Dupont]

great idea, wonderful web page!
mike

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Michal Migurski <mike at stamen.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been quietly updating Tile Drawer (http://tiledrawer.com) over the
> past month, and I've introduced a few new ways that it can interact with
> TileMill (http://mapbox.com/tilemill).
>
> TileMill works especially well with shapefile data, so I've added a final
> step in the Tile Drawer setup process that generates fresh shapefiles of
> your selected area. You can use Tile Drawer as a data pre-processor for use
> with TileMill, essentially ignoring its rendering functionality and
> shutting down the virtual machine after it's finished cranking out a
> selection of zipped shapefiles in /usr/local/tiledrawer/progress. Oliver
> Tonnhofer's Imposm creates data especially well-suited for use in Tilemill,
> so I've made sure to include it in the process.
>
> In the other direction, you can now use your TileMill styles in Tile
> Drawer directly, as long as you stick to a specific shapefile naming scheme
> and provide a zipped copy of your Mapnik 2.0 XML stylesheet to the startup
> script. I've made four selected cities available in the correct shapefile
> naming scheme available here:
>
>        http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-san-francisco.zip
>        http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-london.zip
>        http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-berlin.zip
>        http://stuff.tiledrawer.com/sample-data-tokyo.zip
>
> I'm just putting finishing touches on all of this so documentation remains
> skimpy, but there's more info on my blog here:
>
>        http://mike.teczno.com/notes/tile-drawer-tilemill.html
>
> -mike.
>
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