Hey there - sorry that it took me some time to answer to your replies.
you might look at weait.com - though he uses linux, I was able to get the basics done following his instructions on a windows machine. Granted I ran into different hiccups than a linux user would, but it's still a great resource.
This is exactly what I have done. I finished the tutorial and I think I have installed everything correctly. The only problem I have now is how to configure apache to make it deliver the tiles and trigger the generation of the needed tiles. mod_tile seems to be not available for Windows: http://old.nabble.com/Is-this-true-that-mod_tile-will-not-work-within-Windows--td26156566.html tile cache seems to be a completely different approach and a bit heavy for this simple purpose. What I have found is this one which is designed for Windows http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosmos_Tile_Map_Server The only thing about it is that it will be difficult porting it to linux later on.
Instead of doing the below I have connected the mapnik ogcserver running under apache to the mapnik renderer of openstreetmap data and the format is now WMS which I then connect to geowebcache for WMS cached data. I have had very fast performance using this method.
This seems to be what I was looking for. But as I have never realy worked with neither apache nor mapnik so I think I would need a bit further explanation how to "connect" all those parts ;-) Cheers Thomas _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
