Nick, the main problem with the OSM plugin is that the user group most likely to be unable or unwilling to install PostGIS is also the group least likely to develop their own map style, and the plugin doesn't come with something even remotely resembling what these people usually expect, namely the openstreetmap.org style.
Regarding tile generation and uploading; I don't think this is something that can ever compete with a proper Mapnik setup. If I really were very limited regarding the tile server, say if that were a VM where I can do nothing but deliver pre-made tiles, I would still install a plain vanilla Mapnik/PostGIS setup on my home machine and run tilesgen there, uploading the results. I haven't run the OSM plugin myself but I should be very surprised if, using a style that has about the same level of detail the osm.org style has, you could render an English county on an useful zoomlevel faster with that setup than, on the same machine, with a PostGIS+osm2pgsql+Mapnik setup. I regularly use the data for Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany as a test bed and this takes only a few minutes to import with osm2pgsql on a normal desktop PC... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
