On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 08:30 +1000, Brett Henderson wrote: > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 01:25:20PM -0700, Mikel Maron wrote: > > > >> Are you familiar with setting up Mapnik and TileCache, and other > >> components of the OSM stack? > >> > > > > As a comment: with the recent changes in Mapnik to mmap shapefiles, > > TileCache + OSM + Mapnik is probably a very poor path to take. The world > > boundaries shapefiles are simply too large to reasonably expect to fit > > into memory on most machines in a TileCache-like setup. > > > > At this point, I think mod_tile is the way to go for OSM tile rendering > > (much as it pains me to push people away from my own project). In Mapnik > > 0.4, it worked fine, but these new improvements, simply put, make on the > > fly rendering of more than a handful of tiles (which TileCache doesn't > > seek to prevent) impossible on all but the most powerful systems. > > > > Regards, > > > Hmm, I was worried this might be the response :-) > > Sounds like I need to look into mod_tile then. I initially avoided it > because it sounded much more difficult to install and configure. > > I am documenting the installation steps as I go on this wiki page. If > anybody is willing to put some cookbook steps on this page to install > and configure mod_tile it would be incredibly helpful. Note that I'm > not expecting this server to be generating tiles for thousands of users, > my best guess is dozens at this point. For this reason I have already > lowered some of the postgresql settings from those provided on the OSM > mapnik wiki page. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OnDemandTileServer
It should not be too hard to get mod_tile to work. I developed it originally on Fedora 8. The packages that you are likely to need installed are as follows: - Mapnik (obviously) - Apache packages: httpd, httpd-devel - APR packages: apr, apr-devel, apr-util, apr-util-devel - DejaVu fonts from http://dejavu.sourceforge.net You'll need to fix-up a couple of paths in the source code. The 64 bit library path below will need changing. The font path should be pointed to the location you unpack the DejaVu fonts: gen_tile.cpp: datasource_cache::instance()->register_datasources("/usr/local/lib64/mapnik/input"); gen_tile.cpp: load_fonts("/usr/local/lib64/mapnik/fonts", 0); > A test Myanmar dataset is available here (currently only 7MB): > http://www.bretth.com/myanmar/myanmar.osm.gz I imagine you may run into problems if you need some foreign font glyphs not provided by DejaVu. You might need to substitute some alternate font. Jon _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
