Mike wrote: > I think this is a great idea to have a simple way to get > rendering.
It's the holy grail. :) having said that, downloading an OSM extract file locally, then using osm2pgsql to put it in a PostGIS database, then using Mapnik to render and present in a lightweight locally running web browser is not difficult, just tedious to figure out the first time. (.. thus mention of the live dvd setup script for that) > Also it would be nice to be able to select regions that you > want to render via some package, lets say I am in kansas, > imagine if there was a package like debian-region-us-ks that > you could install to subscribe to updates in that area. If someone wanted to maintain a script to do that and host packages which updated weekly/monthly it might be ok, but this is highly evolving highly updated data with no official releases. Packaging for debian's 18 month release cycle (+/-) seems like republishing an arbitrary newspaper from 2 years ago to me. It would be a big job, and need server space and bandwith... check out CloudMade's website, they already provide these extracts as raw data. (the OSM wiki may mention other sources too, at varying levels of out-of-date) It's a good case for something that might be useful in a PPA actually. generating a "planet file" data extract is pretty easy, e.g. CITY="Nottingham" BBOX="-1.25,52.888,-1.06,53.02" # visualize: #http://www.openstreetmap.org/?box=yes&bbox=$BBOX # Overpass server with Xapi compatibility layer XAPI_URL="http://www.overpass-api.de/api/xapi?"; # needed for Overpass server: XAPI_EXTRA="[@meta]" wget --progress=dot:mega -O "$CITY.osm" \ "${XAPI_URL}*[bbox=$BBOX]$XAPI_EXTRA" bzip2 "$CITY.osm" (as documented in the live dvd script..) best, Hamish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
