Re: [Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-31 Thread Dane Springmeyer
On May 28, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ian Dees wrote: It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and then rendered your viewbox on the fly rather than creating raster tiles. Just use Mapnik and don't catch the

Re: [Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Dane Springmeyer bl...@hailmail.netwrote: On May 28, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Ian Dees wrote: It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and then rendered your viewbox on the

Re: [Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-29 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
some quick thoughts : you could use a mapserver to server wms data created from osm files, you can also use openlayers to render vector data on the fly. mike On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a

[Talk-us] On-the-fly Rendering Library? (Was: Re: Whole world files)

2010-05-28 Thread Ian Dees
It seems that for situations like this it would be nice to have a simple on-the-fly rendering system that consumed the OSM data and then rendered your viewbox on the fly rather than creating raster tiles. If the iPhone can do a passable realtime rendering job for Skobbler, then a heftier machine