Not sure if talk's the best place for this, rather than dev, but I would guess so as it doesn't relate to OSM development itself.
Anyway, some time ago I developed the OSM plugin for Mapnik, but due to other things haven't worked on it for a while. However I always thought that it would be useful in allowing people to generate OSM tiles on their own machine without the need for a PostGIS database. This has a number of benefits: firstly, someone who wanted to create their own OSM-based site wouldn't need to set up PostGIS, which can be a little tricky, and secondly (and I'm finding this is becoming quite a severe problem on my own Freemap site) the server resources required would be much less - the server could just serve static Mapnik tiles with no need for a database at all (though my own site still needs a database for the POIs). Users could render on their own machine and then upload. After the initial phase a GUI could be added to the application. Do people think this is a good idea? It's one of several possibilities that I'd like to work on, though I'd probably only do so if there's sufficient interest and/or I can't resolve the memory issues on my own site in other ways. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
