On Friday 21 December 2007 09:04:54 Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Was thinking that it might be an idea to develop an application to allow > people to set up their own local OSM-based sites for very local areas e.g. > 20x20 miles - in the UK, that could include, for example, the New Forest, > the Lake District or Manchester. I was thinking of the scenario where > people might not want to set up/be able to set up (due to their hosting) a > full PostGIS database, but could instead run a Mapnik-based site off > shapefiles - which, if I remember from tests, is efficient enough for a > small area. > > Does this sound a good idea?
However it is done - yes. The easier we can make it for people to use OSM the better, and putting a slippy map like that on your site is a bit of a faff at the moment from what I can see. Kind regards, Tom -- | Green Party Speaker on Intellectual Property and Free Software | | http://tom.acrewoods.net :: http://www.greenparty.org.uk | _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
