Hi, for a project I need to have a a local tile map server of tiles of (at least) Germany for all zoom levels, because I need to have the tiles available immediately and reliable. I was thinking of the CloudMapMobile tiles because I want to use them on a small screen and there they look better.
I know there are the following options: 1) Script to download all the tiles for all the zoom levels 2) use a renderer like Mapnik to render all the tiles. I started trying the first options but it is way to slow. Probably because some never requested tiles also have to be rendered on the server first? Well it is not an option because it would take months to download. So now I am thinking of option 2). I already have the planet file loadet into a PostGIS-DB, so at least, I don't have to care about this anymore if I take the Mapnik way. Does anybody know how many GB the whole world is? Or Germany? How long would it take to render on a quite powerfull desktop-machine? Or are there any other ideas on how to get such a big amount of data? Thanks for any advice. -Ivo _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
