If you are planning to serve up a custom map then you need to render your own tiles, and for that you will probably want a database backend unless you plan to deliver only a very small area of the world. The three rendered versions on the OSM website all use a different process, although both the default and the cycle layer use mapnik, but not the same database. The website itself runs with Ruby on Rails. The export, browse and search functions are all special components, the search facility for instance has a separate database interface.
Doing a search on the wiki for the individual components will help explain how it all works under the hood. Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Steve Hill >Sent: 11 July 2008 3:14 PM >To: dev@openstreetmap.org >Subject: [OSM-dev] Installing the Rails port. > > >I'm a bit confused by what is actually required to run the website bit of >OSM (not the API - just the slippymap viewer, export tab, etc) - does it >need they MySQL database (with the planet imported into it), or can it be >run without? > > - Steve > xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.nexusuk.org/ > > Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence > > >_______________________________________________ >dev mailing list >dev@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.7/1545 - Release Date: 10/07/2008 >6:43 PM _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
