Skye Book wrote > > Hi Peter, > I was under the impression that Tirex sat behind mod_tile.. It's meant to > replace it? >
There is often a lot of confusion about the naming around mod_tile and what it is. mod_tile it self is an apache module that is responsible for serving tiles and deciding which tiles are out of date and need re-rendering. mod_tile however doesn't do any rendering itself and is thus agnostic to the underlying rendering. mod_tile talks to a rendering backend via a (tcp?) socket. Currently there are two different rendering backends, "renderd" and "tirex". Renderd was the original rendering backend and its source directory lives in the mod_tile directory of the openstreetmap svn directory. Therefore mod_tile and renderd are often not properly distinguished. Renderd only supports mapnik as a renderer. Tirex is a replacement for renderd and works together with mod_tile. (Although there might also be a replacement component for mod_tile, I am not sure). Tirex is more flexible with respect to the actual renderer and it currently has plugins to render tiles via mapnik, mapserver or WMS. I am also currently working on a geojson vector "renderer" for tirex and it is relatively easy to extend it with further rendering plugins depending on your needs. tiles.osm.org however continues to use renderd for rendering. So in case you don't want to use mapnik for rendering, you are probably best off with the combination of mod_tile and tirex. Kai -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Using-custom-renderer-with-mod-tile-tp5525843p5526495.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
