Kai, Thanks for the clear explanation.. That meshes well with what I understood from reading the wiki and cursory looks at source code
-Skye On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: > > 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 and deciding which tiles are out of date and need re-rendering.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 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
