8 hours and 800 commands later ...
Reformatted the computer, reinstalled Ubuntu 11.04, ran the FULL set of
commands from the wiki, downloading the 500MB of coastline data, and adding my
login name to the db permissions.
Ran the database import, checked that the data was in the tables. Still
But wait ...
Although the web-page doesn't show any tiles
http://localtileserver/osm/slippymap.html
... the individual tiles are being generated ...
http://localtileserver/osm/11/1712/949.png
Its a bit slow, but it is working ... don't know why the webpage won't load any
So after 3 hours, did it work jim? I think that's the easy bit now.
What's even more difficult is tweaking the default style to your own
preference. OSM's mapnik xml is really ginormous. That would
probably take me more than a week to understand.
I do hope the carto css gets into the stable
maning sambale wrote, On Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 03:30 PM:
So after 3 hours, did it work jim? I think that's the easy bit now.
What's even more difficult is tweaking the default style to your own
preference. OSM's mapnik xml is really ginormous. That would
probably take me more than a
Not sure if it was missing the step of putting my username in the setup
script which meant it doesn't work, or something else. But as I can't get
postgresql to remove and reinstall properly, there's no way I can tell. I'm
thinking it will be quicker to reinstall the OS fresh and start from
This sounded so good, I thought I'd give it a go this afternoon. However the
commands given as typed in the email don't work. I'd recommend reading the long
version at the wiki page he references later on:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ubuntu_tile_server
Specifically I found these
Wow. 5 steps to setup tileserver in Ubuntu.
I took me last Saturday and Sunday just to setup PostGIS and move OSM
data (Australia.osm.pdf) using osm2pgsql and still have problem
rendering it to TileMill in Mac OS X.
Postgresql and PostGIS are not so good in Mac OS X at the moment,
problem in
