Great to hear that you are working on this. I definitely would be using
such a service, and it would be a great stand-in for the many instances
where at the moment people use Google Maps or VE.
Frederik Ramm wrote:
HI,
Being the greedy bastard, and given my desire to further OSM usage for
GIS purposes, I wondered if it would be possible to also create a world
file (georeference metadata basically) so that generated images (PNG,
Jpeg ...) can be readily used as base layers for maps?
I want to (re)make a WMS server on top of OSM data, using mapnik and/or
osmarender as a backend. Unfortunately, I can't find the time to get that
idea out of the back burner.
I have a halfway working prototype of a WMS server that works by
marrying an embedded C/C++ HTTPD to Mapnik (i.e. no Python involved).
The GetMap call works well already but the GetCapabilities response is
currently hardcoded whereas it should really be created dynamically
from the Mapnik map file, maybe even exposing individual layers
(currently I just offer one combined layer). I am also facing some
trouble with on-the-fly projection. But as long as you're happy with
EPSG:4326, you can already load Mapnik images into your favourite GIS
app.
I hope to have a working service within about two weeks, and will
release the source then. It is, er, a bit on the segfaulty side at the
moment and I have to investigate more. (I'm also unsure whether that
project should live in the OSM SVN or rather on the Mapnik site - not
much OSM about it I guess.)
Bye
Frederik
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