Jon Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 13:46 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: >> Jon Burgess wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 13:07 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: >>>> Hi Dane, >>>> >>>> Yep, but I'm using SQLite/Spatialite. I haven't managed to find a >>>> simple >>>> program like osm2pgsql to get data from OSM XML to Spatialite. Seems >>>> I >>>> need multiple tools, 20Mb download (FW Tools), etc. I also want to >>>> use >>>> the standard OSM styling for the maps - not sure if the SQLite plugin >>>> for Mapnik would use it. >>>> >>> Do you really need to render new tiles containing the OSM data? The >>> other alternative is to overlay the data in the browser. If you have >>> complex data then you can render it into tiles with a transparent >>> background. Or for simpler data OpenLayers supports drawing lines, >>> markers etc on top of the tiles. >>> >>> Jon >> This small project is to gather data in the field and render maps on the >> spot using a laptop running Windows. The field data will be put into an >> SQLite database. I would like OSM maps as a background to give context >> to the data the user enters. > > As Dane mentioned, provided you can install Postgres too, Mapnik will > happily render tiles from both SQLite & Postgres data sources. > > As I mentioned before, you could still take a set of existing OSM tiles > and then render your new data to transparent tiles to use as an overlay. > This has the benefit of reducing the amount of data which needs to be > rendered which will make the local updates much faster.
So your suggestion is to download the OSM tiles. Render transparent tiles in Mapnik that are the same size with the same top left coordinates. Then use another program to put the OSM tiles and my tiles together? Andy -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
