On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 22:21 +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?
You could try: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/mapnik-devel/2008-February/000514.html ... but the Postgres based approach has been used by the main OSM site for over a year so it it pretty well tested and understood. The link above is new code which was only announced 3 days ago. Postgres is quite easy to work with once you've gone through the pain of setting it up the first time. For example, to import the new data each week you just run: osm2pgsql planet-latest.osm.bz2 Jon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
