Hello all and thank you for allowing me to post. I spent a little time on the IRC with these questions and some good information was returned to me.
Here is my scenario ... I have two sets of data that I am interested in with most likely two separate projects. 1) I have collected data from the county I live in (Humphreys County, Tennessee). I have used this data with JOSM to create the map that I want. Following this, I used osm2pgsql to import the data into postgres for mapnik to render. I selected a bounding box of the area I wanted rendered with a scale of 10-18. (This took a little while.) But it has completed. 2) I have shapefile data from the Army Corps of Engineers containing data for the river system. An email asking about projection resulted in the following statement: " ... The charts that are converted to ESRI shapefile format are the same projection of the S-57 data: Geographic projection with WGS84 spheroid and datum. ..." The line in the .prj file from the data I have downloaded reads .... GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]] Now please remember, I am as green and new as you can get to this activity, but here are my questions. 1) How can I include the shapefile in my PostGres database to be rendered by Mapnik? Does it need to be done outside of the database? 2) When the tiles are rendered, is their a clear example of how to use the rendered tiles with OpenLayers? Is TileCache required or optional? I have no need to render on demand. (Maybe because ignorance is bliss) :) 3) If someone is trying to learn all of these different software layers to create maps, where does one go? Google does not seem to bring up a lot of resources for newbies? 4) Is there a concise guide, FAQ, Tutorial that would explain the steps, configurations, or link to information to get a new user involved and ramped up the learning curve a bit? Or is this stuff really just targeted towards cartographers or something? Please don't get me wrong. I am willing to RTFM, but finding it seems to be my problem. Can someone shed some light on it for me, please? Warm Regards, Joe _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
