Hi Nick, I would be very interested in such an application, especially for generating custom tiles from an OSM file for use on mobile devices.
Cheers, Joseph On 22 February 2010 12:43, Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure if talk's the best place for this, rather than dev, but I would > guess so as it doesn't relate to OSM development itself. > > Anyway, some time ago I developed the OSM plugin for Mapnik, but due to > other things haven't worked on it for a while. However I always thought > that it would be useful in allowing people to generate OSM tiles on their > own machine without the need for a PostGIS database. This has a number of > benefits: firstly, someone who wanted to create their own OSM-based site > wouldn't need to set up PostGIS, which can be a little tricky, and > secondly (and I'm finding this is becoming quite a severe problem on my > own Freemap site) the server resources required would be much less - the > server could just serve static Mapnik tiles with no need for a database at > all (though my own site still needs a database for the POIs). Users could > render on their own machine and then upload. After the initial phase a GUI > could be added to the application. > > Do people think this is a good idea? It's one of several possibilities > that I'd like to work on, though I'd probably only do so if there's > sufficient interest and/or I can't resolve the memory issues on my own > site in other ways. > > Nick > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
