Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-27 Thread Matt Amos
2009/3/27 Iván Sánchez Ortega : > 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

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
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. > > I think we are miscommunicating and maybe we just mean different things. I think we agree on the big picture, but disagree on the details :-)

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread OJ W
PHP code is available to stitch-together map images from existing tileservers into an PNG/JPEG image (for use by things like mediawiki plugins): http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/GetMap/ maybe could add some drawing code to that, e.g. to plot locations, add icons? ___

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread Milo van der Linden
Dear all, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El Miércoles, 25 de Marzo de 2009, Milo van der Linden escribió: > >> Mapnik could act as a wms server, but this would not be good for >> performance since all rendering would be done straight from the >> openstreetmap db on the fly. >> > > You're wro

[OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Wicks
Milo, thanks for the links to the info. I'll be sure to give it a look. Caching with WMS is something that, as far as I know is not common, If you > can figure out a way of caching and write a proposal, please also offer it > to the mentor group at www.osgeo.org, they would gladly help Well, I w

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-25 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 25 de Marzo de 2009, Milo van der Linden escribió: > Mapnik could act as a wms server, but this would not be good for > performance since all rendering would be done straight from the > openstreetmap db on the fly. You're wrong - mapnik depends on a local PostgreSQL database, not on

Re: [OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-25 Thread Milo van der Linden
Paul Wicks wrote: > Hello all, > > My name is Paul Wicks and I am a Computer Science major at the > University of Puget Sound and I am interested in taking part in the > Google of Summer of Code for the OSM project. > > The idea in the list that seemed to appeal to me most was the creation > of

[OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Wicks
Hello all, My name is Paul Wicks and I am a Computer Science major at the University of Puget Sound and I am interested in taking part in the Google of Summer of Code for the OSM project. The idea in the list that seemed to appeal to me most was the creation of a Static Map API. I'd be very inter