On 30 Jan 2008, at 12:24, David Earl wrote: > On 30/01/2008 11:47, Artem Pavlenko wrote: >> On 30 Jan 2008, at 10:25, bvh wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:56:13AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: >>>> So it is reasonable or optimal for us to maintain an infinite >>>> number >>>> of custom maps for third parties that want custom maps but don't >>>> want >>>> the hassle of rendering them? >>> No, we should provide tools that make it very easy to create a >>> custom >>> map. Mapnik is not (yet?) that tool. >> Mapnik is that tool and it's also free and easy to use ;) . It is >> used in many exciting projects to generate custom maps e.g >> http://www.everyblock.com/ >> http://www.placebase.com/ >> http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/ > > but installing it and keeping it up to date is a nightmare for > ordinary mortals.
This is why I'm making win32 binaries ( and planning os x pkg) - for ordinary mortals. For more advanced folk : sudo apt-get install mapnik or rpm -ivh etc. All is needed is a bit of extra help (hint hint hint) , I'm personally quite happy with building from source - worksforme :) > If an instance of it were already installed in an accessible place > (on the internet for example, with a web interface) so that you > could just use the very nice GUI I saw you demonstrate at SOTM last > year, or some variation of it, it would be that tool. > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by instance. Postgresql ? Mapnik is c++ library that can be used with any modern GUI toolkit to render maps. There are different ways to setup it up, of course and web based service is one of them. > > David Artem _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
