On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ákos Maróy <[email protected]> wrote: > what I still don't understand is, and sorry for being so > un-knowledgable, is how the rendering process is handled - from > vector-based OSM map definitions to map tiles.
It's completely separate from the editing stack. The most common way to process OSM data into rendered maps is using the Mapnik software library. You convert all the OSM-format XML data to geospatial linestrings, polygons etc, and store them in another database. Mapnik then processes the data, using a stylesheet, and out comes the rendered images. Have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
