Over the past few days I've been documenting the exact steps needed to setup, run and maintain your own map rendering system. If the area is small enough you can even do it in a virtual machine, and a vmware image will be published at some point so all you need to do is download, run and tell it the area of the planet you are actually interested in.
http://wiki.sharedmap.org/wiki/Rendering_At_Home We have been given permission from Archive.org to store map tiles on their systems, however scripts are still being tweaked to make this as simple and straight forward that anyone with a little technical experience would have no problems using. Some details about the current thoughts on how to best to achieve this based on a few limitations: http://wiki.sharedmap.org/wiki/ArchiveOrg This should make it possible and easy for anyone that wants tiles for a custom style sheet. We have a proof of concept map page running: http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html While there is tiles for most of the planet up to z6, as a test we published some z21 tiles for Sydney, only to find out the default style sheet does very poorly beyond about z18 with roads disappearing and all sorts of weird things, the only thing that still looked ok was polygons that get rendered. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au