[OSM-talk] OSM "software"

[Kai Krueger]

Toby Murray-2 wrote
> 
> A slightly better link might be:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails_port
> 
> This is what drives the core of OSM. Don't know that you have to be
> overly good at rails development to set it up but it is certainly not
> the simplest thing in the world.
> 
If you are on Ubuntu, the rails_port packages in my PPA[1] might be of help.
They were originally meant to get new OSM developers up and running quicker,
but I guess they might also be used by "users" of the "OSM rails_port"
software. Assuming the packages still work (which they might not, as they
pull the code directly from http://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/ and thus
change every time some one commits something and can break), it should get
you up and running with the website code together with the API and backend
database.

Note though, that the rails port will pull tiles from osm.org for its slippy
map and not from your own database. For this you will need to additionally
set up your own tile server and sync it with your API database. Then you
need to configure it to pull tiles from there.

However, the rails_port code is very tailor made to OpenStreetMap.org and
not ideally modularized to be well configurable for third party sites. So
you might hit some issues, although hopefully it should be ok if you are
fine with just the features on osm.org.

Kai


[1] https://launchpad.net/~kakrueger/+archive/openstreetmap/+packages

Toby


On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Stephane Goldstein <s.n.g@> wrote:
> Thanks Jaime.
>
> I think this is still beyond my reach right now.
> I have no experience in development or coding.
> I was thinking that maybe there was some simpler solution.
> Maybe some day. I think it would be of great value for the GIS people to
> have such tool at hands.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Jaime Crespo
>
> Sent: 03/09/12 04:37 PM
>
> To: Stephane Goldstein
>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM "software"
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>
>
> 2012/3/9 Stephane Goldstein <s.n.g@>:
>> Hello.
>>
>> OSM has already been proved as the ultimate tool for collaborative
>> mapping.
>>
>> Is there a way someone could use the same platform to work on private
>> mapping colaboration projects ?
>
> Check out <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop> and further
> help on <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev>.
> --
> Jaime Crespo
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