On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:27 +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:54 +0200, Michael Handerek wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 11:41 +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 10:43 +0200, Michael Handerek wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I setup a PostGIS + Mapnik + mod_tile server to serve my own tiles. It > > > > is already running :) but mapnik only renders boundaries. I have read on > > > > mapnik wiki the troubleshooting that covers my problem. > > > > > > > > "If the generated tiles or image show coastlines, but lack streets, > > > > street names, cities, and other features, please verify that the > > > > database user can indeed login. The scripts and mapnik may quietly fail > > > > to read the data and thus render with coastlines, but no other data. > > > > Another cause is building mapnik without postgis support." > > > > > > > > The data ist definitive taken from Postgres, checked by tailing the > > > > access logs. > > > > What does it mean to build mapnik with postgis support? This point seems > > > > not to be mentioned explicit in the install howto on the mapnik site. > > > > > > If mapnik is connecting with postgresql then you have the postgis.input > > > plugin. > > > > > > What data have you imported into postgresql? > > > > I imported a complete planet dump via osmosis. Should I consider > > something importing data for mapnik via osmosis? > > If you did not use osm2pgsql for part of the import then you don't have > the data loaded in the correct way. Osmosis can load the OSM data into > postgres but not in the correct format for Mapnik to use. > See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik > > > > > > > > If using OSM with osm2pgsql then make sure you build and install the > > > latest from SVN. See > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik#osm2pgsql
Great thx. Oms2pgsql did it! Does anybody know how much space a planet dump will take with osm2pgsql? > > > > > > > > > > Furthermore generated tiles on higer zoomlevels are squishy. > > > > > > What do you mean by this? Perhaps you are wanting to change the > > > projection? > > > > > > One more issue I encountered. If I change the bgcolor of the map in my > > osm.xml, this doesn't take effect on new rendered tiles. Changing the > > projection too. > > The bgcolor only effects the blue sea colour. The land colour rendered > by the style applied to the coastline shapefile polygons. > > The mod_tile code lays out the tiles assuming the "900913" projection as > used by the OSM tiles: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_map_tilenames > > If you change to a different projection then things will probably break. > > > > > > > > Does anybody already fixed issues like that? > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Mapnik-users mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mapnik-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users

