Hi Philip, [email protected] schrieb: > I too am finding that the scripts and utilities are changing all the > time so that my recipes are out of date very quickly.
Yep. I even didn't try the new OSM style creation right now. That makes some things complicated at the beginning, but should be more easy for the future. > Yes, I realise that linux is, in a number of ways, preferred - but maybe > as much as 95% of the OSM user base runs WIndows (from various > unverified Internet estimates of domestic computer useage!). So, by > making everything linux oriented, we immediately create barriers for a > majority of potential users. But how many users really want to do rendering on their systems? I think only very few. There are other things, which may harm users running PostGIS and Mapnik: Importing Europe takes 3 hours on my computer. On other systems, it takes 24-26 hours (I've seen this many times). > This is clearly wider than just Mapnik, of course. I started out > by cleaning off an older generation PC and installing Ubuntu > and used that as a learning platform. As a non-linux > user, it was a painful but rewarding process. Think of VirtualBox. It would be possible to create a VM-image based on Ubuntu or Debian. It could be accessed from Windows via a website, hosted on this VM. Best regards, Tobias _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
