On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Christian Anger <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for your messages! It seems that the best solution for me would > be to set up an own tile server, download the tiles from OSM and then > providing them to the users of our app. We have planned to let the app > display maps offline, so a permanent data service wouldn't be necessary. > > @Toby: Styling our own tiles is a great idea. That way, we could provide the > most appropriate map representation for our users. Is there a documentation > on tile styling?
There are a couple of ways of going about this. You could set up your own complete OSM rendering stack. You would download the OSM database dump available at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ and import it into a postgis database and then use that to render tiles on demand using a customized map style. Not a walk in the park but doable. One of the better guides that I am currently aware of is one by Richard Weait: http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server There is also an Amazon machine image called Tile Drawer that lets you do your rendering in EC2. They talk about doing a small region. Not sure if it scales well to world wide coverage. http://tiledrawer.com/ Lastly, there are services like CloudMade that serve up tiles from their servers with your style changes (for a fee of course). I think there is another service besides CloudMade that does this but I don't remember off the top of my head. I'm not really an expert at the rendering end of things but that's what I know from hanging around the OSM community for a while. Toby _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
