On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:50 +0100, Steve Hill wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm already rendering Mapnik tiles for the OpenPisteMap website (so I > have the PostGIS database already). However, the OSM site has some > nice > features like the map exporter that I wouldn't mind adding so I was > trying to guage what I needed to do. > > >From what I understand from the wiki, the main OSM data set is in > MySQL, > but I wasn't quite able to work out if I actually needed the MySQL DB > for > the Ruby on Rails website to work, or if I could do without it.
If you want to run the rails code with no modification then you probably need a database to keep rails happy but it does not need to have any data in it. The code which provides the exported Mapnik images in the CGI script at: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/sites/tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export If you've got a Mapnik rendering setup already then this should be simple to add, it just needs to be called like: /cgi-bin/export?bbox=#{bbox}&scale=#{scale}&format=#{format} Jon _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
