On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:21:04PM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote: > >>> 2. What do I need? PostgreSQL? Python? What else? > >> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik > > It's rather short. Is it really that simple...? > > I'm surprised by that reaction... I just read the Mapnik page and > thought "that's flipping complicated". > > Mapnik itself, judging by http://www.mapnik.org/, seems to regard the > whole PosgreSQL thing as optional. Is there any way of getting OSM data > into a format Mapnik will render without having to set up a database?
There is active ongoing development to support rendering with mapnik directly from a .osm file, I believe. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
