...(forgot to click on the "reply-to-all" button, sorry Frederik)...
Or you can take a look at Maperitive, it enables you to export bitmaps both from OSM tiles or using a custom rendering (including one similar to Mapnik's OSM layer). It uses a local tile caching and download throttling so it should not overburden the OSM server (no more than a browser, anyway). http://www.flickr.com/photos/breki74/tags/maperitive/ p.s. as for export button on the OSM map being intended for manual jobs and not scripting: why not add a CAPTCHA? Igor On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Mikel, > > > Mikel Maron wrote: > >> Since the export function is linked from the main site, imo we should >> consider it a core service that should be available at some service level. >> Personally, we use this feature often through Map Kibera. >> > > The Mapnik image export works by custom rendering your image, whereas the > Osmarender image export, and also anything you do via > openstreetmap.gryph.de/bigmap.cgi, works by stitching together individual > tiles. If any of these work for you then they will be more reliable than the > image export (the bigmap service will let you create a Perl script which you > can then run at any time to update the image). > > Generally, "scraping" tiles is frowned upon, but downloading 20 or 30 > pre-rendered tiles will certainly put less load on the tile server than > requesting a custom render. > > Bye > Frederik > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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