Hi,
I originally developed the Mapnik OSM plugin about two years ago, though owing
to other commitments I haven't taken things a lot further.
However I have a couple of ideas for software using it and was wondering if
there was more general interest.
Firstly, I'm having quite significant memory issues attempting to run and
maintain a PostGIS database containing OSM data for the UK on my Freemap
server. An alternative I thought of some time ago, but never really got round
to implementing beyond a demo program in the OSM plugin distribution, is a
piece of software which will take an OSM file, or files, and render Mapnik
tiles at various zoom levels from them. Rather like the ti...@home project,
this would move the burden of data storage and rendering from server to client.
It could also lower the barrier to creating your own Mapnik-based OSM site as
you wouldn't have to install a PostGIS database, which IMX can be quite tricky
to set up.
As an extension to this, a GUI interface could be implemented.
Do people think these are good ideas?
Thanks,
Nick
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