Hi Richard Thanks for clarifing these aspects.
To our defense, regarding scaling to the globe we actually just tried to rephrase the README "It's best suited to city and region extracts." [1]. So sorry for our interpretation. Regarding additional data (as Shapefiles) the docs says "Tilemaker chiefly works with OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf data, but you can also bring in Shapefiles. These are useful for rarely-changing data such as coastlines and built-up area outlines.". And: Lua transformations are not available for shapefiles". This would probably fulfill our needs since we actually are including Naturalearth data from Shapefiles. But is Tilemaker really suited to include completely arbitrary data sources? Any use cases? Regards, Stefan [1] https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker [2] https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md#shapefiles 2015-12-17 17:49 GMT+01:00 Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>: > Stefan Keller wrote: >> OSM2VectorTiles is a project simplifying installation of free >> world maps maintained by OpenStreetMap community. > > Looks interesting - nice work! > > If I may just pick you up on one statement in the thesis: > > "There also exists a method[17] that circumvents using a database and > directly transform OSM data into vector tiles but this does not scale for > global vector tile coverage and does not support mixing additional data into > the vector tiles. > > "[17] GitHub. Tilemaker, 2015. URL https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker. > Visited on 2015-12-14." > > Whether tilemaker scales to the globe has not yet been attested. My hunch is > that it probably doesn't impose more demanding requirements than, say, OSRM, > which would mean it should be possible to create vector tiles from > planet.osm.pbf with a large memory machine or EC2 instance. I would be > interested to hear from anyone who tries it. > > It does, however, very definitely support including additional data (in > shapefile form), and even allows you to perform some spatial queries using > this data. See > https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md#shapefiles > . > > cheers > Richard > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Project-OSM2VectorTiles-org-launched-tp5862757p5862759.html > Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
