On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Tom Lancaster wrote: > >> newhanoian.com has been leading an effort to complete the OSM Hanoi map >> recently, and we're at a point where we'd like to use OSM tiles in place >> of >> our custom Gmaps + tilelayer solution. Since we're in vietnam we'd like to >> download a tileset for Hanoi and the surrounding area and serve it from >> our >> server rather than rely on tile.openstreetmap.org, which is >> network-distant. >> >> I've read a lot of stuff on the wiki, but I don't see how to do this >> without >> downloading the whole world's tileset. It would seem it's possible as I >> can >> download data for a limited area to JOSM. >> > > You might suffer from some confusion regarding raw data vs. tiles here. You > can download the raw data for the whole world from > planet.openstreetmap.org, or sections thereof from third parties, in your > case the best bet would probably Cloudmade's country excerpt: > > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia/vietnam > > You can then use a local Mapnik installation ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik) to generate your own tiles. > > If you're only after a small area (say, up to one level-10 tile) then you > can also use the ti...@home software to generate your tiles directly from > live data (it will download the required bits); ti...@home normally > uploads the generated tiles to the server but also has a "localSlippymap" > config option that lets you create tiles on disk. ti...@home is painfully > slow compared to Mapnik but a bit easier to set up. > > The alternative is downloading ready-made tiles from the tile server, but > there is no off-the-shelf solution for that; you'd have to write a small > perl script for that, or if you're technically inclined, just install a > caching proxy between yourself and the openstreetmap.org and surf through > all of Hanoi once... > Great idea! I hadn't thought of that, and it's especially appropriate for us as we're still heavily adding to the map. That will save me having to re-make tiles weekly. Thanks, Tom > > Bye > Frederik > > -- Director of Technology - The New Hanoian www.newhanoian.com - [email protected] +84 904 343 601
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