As promised, my instructions are now in the Wiki (admittedly far from perfect!)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik_GB_Projection Hopefully these will be of use to someone. Kev Swindells :o) On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Kev js1982 <[email protected]> wrote: > As a follow up to my earlier emails regarding this. > > I have finally got it working with thanks to Matt Amos (and everyone else > who has replied). > > Basically there appear to be bugs* in Mapnik preventing it converting from > "Google" projection to 27700 on the fly, coupled with some misunderstanding > of the XML file and python scripts. > > Once the data is in the database in the 27700 format (needed to recompile > osm2pgsql) and the shape files have been converted (I used MapWindow GIS to > filter to the British Isles and surrounds (i.e. Benelux, Northern France) > Mapnik seams to work okay (apart from some weirdness like "Lincoln" becoming > "Linc", "Peterbourgh" -> "erborough" etc... > > Now to write up for the Wiki. > > Thanks everyone for their help. > > Kev Swindells. > > > * Possibly bugs or just a complete lack of memory on my machine. >
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