Re: [OSM-talk] Project OSM2VectorTiles.org launched

2015-12-20 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Richard Thanks for clarifing these aspects. To our defense, regarding scaling to the globe we actually just tried to rephrase the README "It's best suited to city and region extracts." [1]. So sorry for our interpretation. Regarding additional data (as Shapefiles) the docs says "Tilemaker

[OSM-talk] Project OSM2VectorTiles.org launched

2015-12-17 Thread Stefan Keller
OSM2VectorTiles is a project simplifying installation of free world maps maintained by OpenStreetMap community. It offers freely downloadable OSM vector tiles, and a set of open-source tools to use them and generate them. Within minutes anybody who knows Docker can run on a laptop or private

Re: [OSM-talk] Project OSM2VectorTiles.org launched

2015-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan Keller wrote: > OSM2VectorTiles is a project simplifying installation of free > world maps maintained by OpenStreetMap community. Looks interesting - nice work! If I may just pick you up on one statement in the thesis: "There also exists a method[17] that circumvents using a database