On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Well, mapnik treats the postgis input more like a glorified shapefile. You could in theory dump the OSM data into shapefiles and render from there. Fact is though, running it from the database is a lot faster because Postgres is very smart about optimising queries. The coastline checker produces output in shapefile format which you can use in mapnik directly, however dumping it into a database improves the performance. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
