Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-08 Thread pcreso
fort Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS To: "Paolo Corti" Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 4:43 AM On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 16:23, Paolo Corti wrote: >> >> One of the mentioned constraints was offline usage... >> > > y

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Paolo Corti
> By "pregenerate" I suppose you mean pre-download from the osm servers? > This in the general case is prohibited by osm's TOS : > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy Yes, I am referring to the possibility to do the "seeding" of the tiles, for example, referring to MapProxy, look

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread thomas bonfort
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 16:23, Paolo Corti wrote: >> >> One of the mentioned constraints was offline usage... >> > > yes, but it is possible to pre-generate the tiles, though not sure if > this is feasible on just one server for the whole OSM dataset, but > maybe for much simpler datasets would be

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Paolo Corti
> > One of the mentioned constraints was offline usage... > yes, but it is possible to pre-generate the tiles, though not sure if this is feasible on just one server for the whole OSM dataset, but maybe for much simpler datasets would be the way to go P -- Paolo Corti Geospatial software develop

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread thomas bonfort
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 16:00, Paolo Corti wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM, thomas bonfort > wrote: >> Here http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataUbuntu you >> have detailed instructions for how to setup mapserver as a wms server >> for openstreetmap imagery. >> As the base

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Paolo Corti
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM, thomas bonfort wrote: > Here http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataUbuntu you > have detailed instructions for how to setup mapserver as a wms server > for openstreetmap imagery. > As the basemap rendering isn't specially light on server ressources I

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Reinoud Bokhorst
Thank you. Yes, I was planning to use a tile cache for this service. I am not new to MapServer but have never used OSM or tile caching and am not particularly experienced in styling, so I have many questions now. But I'll first study the documentation in the answers! On 03/07/2012 10:16 AM, tho

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Reinoud Bokhorst
Thank you for your answers. @Edward: Thank you for that link, just what I needed. I have been looking at OSM before but it always seemed to be mainly about street maps with too many features and I never really found out how to use it. In the link you provided I now also see decent topographic

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
osgeo.org] Puolesta > thomas bonfort > Lähetetty: 7. maaliskuuta 2012 11:16 > Vastaanottaja: Reinoud Bokhorst > Kopio: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > Aihe: Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS > > Here http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataUbuntu you &g

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread thomas bonfort
Here http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataUbuntu you have detailed instructions for how to setup mapserver as a wms server for openstreetmap imagery. As the basemap rendering isn't specially light on server ressources I would recommend using a tile cache and not expose the wms servi

Re: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Edward Mac Gillavry < emacgilla...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Reinoud, > > For this, I'd recommend going with OpenStreetMap data ( > http://www.openstreetmap.org/). You can either download the whole data > set for the world yourself and start building, or you can take m

RE: [mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

2012-03-07 Thread Edward Mac Gillavry
Reinoud, For this, I'd recommend going with OpenStreetMap data (http://www.openstreetmap.org/). You can either download the whole data set for the world yourself and start building, or you can take mapping services from various suppliers. Check out http://www.switch2osm.org/ for further infor