2009/3/27 Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es>: > El Jueves, 26 de Marzo de 2009, Milo van der Linden escribió: >> > You're wrong - mapnik depends on a local PostgreSQL database, not on the >> > OSM API. >> >> The current Infrastructure where hunderds of mapnik/postgresql/postgis >> servers pull data from the osm api-db, turn it into tiles and serve these to >> thousands of end clients is an efficient structure. > > AFAIK, right now the mapnik-based renderers fetch the data from planet diffs, > push it into a PGSQL DB through osmosis and a cronjob, then let mapnik render > the tiles.
almost. the standard toolchain for mapnik db loading uses osm2pgsql, not osmosis. the diffs are exported from the db using osmosis, though. for what its worth i agree that WMS isn't innovative or interesting, but it does have widespread support. (fsov "support") cheers, matt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
