Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-19 Thread Jonathan-David SCHRODER
Hello, I am part of the Geopard project adverstised here some time ago. This project is about indoor mapping + indoor wifi geopositioning on any devices, while relying on the OSM stack. During the dev of a first prototype, I had 2 major issues related to mod_tile/renderd current

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-19 Thread Jochen Topf
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 05:26:18PM +0200, Jonathan-David SCHRODER wrote: So.. If I can sum up my yet unmet requirements regarding mod_tile/renderd, those are : - easy on the fly max zoom level change without any application restart Tirex currently allows any zoom level, if you ask for zoom

[OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Kai Krueger
Hello, with the recent appearance of tirex there are now at least two, with the python version of renderd 3, but probably more implementations of a rendering backend. All attempt to roughly do the same, i.e. take requests from a webserver or other program and render them. So the question is

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Kai, Kai Krueger wrote: This is less of a question though regarding using renderd vs tirex but more of a question of where the future lies and thus for which to develop new features. It would be a shame and rather inefficient to put in effort to develop features for something that turns

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Jochen Topf
Hi! On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:21:31AM +0100, Kai Krueger wrote: with the recent appearance of tirex there are now at least two, with the python version of renderd 3, but probably more implementations of a rendering backend. All attempt to roughly do the same, i.e. take requests from a

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Kai Krueger
On 04/17/2010 11:29 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Kai, Kai Krueger wrote: This is less of a question though regarding using renderd vs tirex but more of a question of where the future lies and thus for which to develop new features. It would be a shame and rather inefficient to put in effort to

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Jon Burgess
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 10:21 +0100, Kai Krueger wrote: Hello, with the recent appearance of tirex there are now at least two, with the python version of renderd 3, but probably more implementations of a rendering backend. All attempt to roughly do the same, i.e. take requests from a

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Jon Burgess
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 12:09 +0100, Kai Krueger wrote: On 04/17/2010 11:29 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Kai, Kai Krueger wrote: This is less of a question though regarding using renderd vs tirex but more of a question of where the future lies and thus for which to develop new features. It

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Jochen Topf
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:09:52PM +0100, Kai Krueger wrote: On 04/17/2010 11:29 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Kai, Kai Krueger wrote: This is less of a question though regarding using renderd vs tirex but more of a question of where the future lies and thus for which to develop new

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: There are many ways we could approach this: One would be to implement something in Mapnik so that it can allow variables in style files. Then you would only have one style file for all languages and somehow feed the

Re: [OSM-dev] Tirex vs Renderd

2010-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Weait wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: There are many ways we could approach this: One would be to implement something in Mapnik so that it can allow variables in style files. Then you would only have one style file for all languages