I'm one of the technical admins on wikivoyage.org. Wikivoyage is a non-profit open-content project with the goal to produce a world wide travel guide. So far, only in German and Italian. We still have a lack of suitable maps.
Let me describe my ideas in short: * We plan to keep a copy of OSM's database on our server. * We would like to render customized static maps for different purposes form this database. * We need projections different from Mercator for large scale overview maps. * When redering, depending on the purpose, we need to focus for certain map features. * Maps should be generated automatically without any human help. All this looks like a complex project, so I probably will ask you for some help during the next weeks and months. Here are my first questions, also posted to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Osmosis#What_Java_distributions_will_work.3F Is there any benefit from using PostGIS instead of PostgreSQL without PostGIS? I do ask this because I have experienced several oddities when experimenting with PostGIS before. As far a I see, getting osmosis running is vital for importing the planet.osm file into the database. I freely admit that java is not my favourit language. We run Debian Lenny on our server and there is a confusing choice of Java distros: openJDK, gcj or sun-jdk. Could you give me a hint which of them would be the best to install? Thanks for all help Hans (User Hansm on Wikivoyage) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
