On 10/09/2011 05:10 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hi Kai, > > This is pretty interesting. Thanks for setting this up. > > How does this whole thing handle the coastlines?
The package libapach2-mod-tile pulls in (recomends rather than depends) a package called "openstreetmap-mapnik-stylesheet-data" that as part of its postinstall script calls the "get-coastlines.sh" script, which downloads the coastline shape files from tile.osm.org and fetches the "natural earth" shapefiles from its respective server. Those are a download of somewhere between 400 - 500 Mb. If you don't want to download those during the installation process, you can say you don't want to do that in a config question and do it manually later. Similarly, the package "openstreetmap-postgis-db-setup" calls a postinstall script that creates the db "gis" with the postgis extension loaded and sets up the required users and roles. Some of these glue and setup scripts violate the debian package policy, I think, but I felt they were necessary to make the installation as easy as possible. You don't need them though, if you want to set up things your self instead. Kai > > Thanks, > Eugene > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Kai Krueger <kakrue...@gmail.com > <mailto:kakrue...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > with the recent need to crack down on tile scrapers and apps to not over > tax the main OSM tileservers and hosting, there has been a lot of talk > trying to convince people to set up their own tileserver. > > Although that is of cause by far not the only hurdle to set up your own > tileserver, one barrier is perhaps the perceived complicated procedure > to set up all the elements necessary. Although there are a number of > decent howtos already available on the wiki (perhaps even to many, each > containing slightly different advice...), it is perhaps still more > effort than people want to get into. > > In the hope to make this process even simpler, I have created a bunch of > packages for Ubuntu containing all the necessary software, as well as > glue packages to deal with the necessary setup and interaction between > the different components. > > The packages aren't perfect yet, but hopefully sufficiently helpful > already to be of use to others who are interested in playing around with > their own tileserver. > > A simple standard tileserver can now be setup in 5 commands in a > terminal: > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kakrueger/openstreetmap > sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-tile > wget http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/colorado.osm.pbf > osm2pgsql > > <http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/colorado.osm.pbf%0Aosm2pgsql> > -C 1500 colorado.osm.pbf > sudo /etc/init.d/renderd restart > > At the end you should have a working tileserver based on mod_tile and > renderd with the standerd OSM-mapnik stylesheet. > > You can test it out by opening the installed slippymap at > http://localhost/osm/slippymap.html > > You will of cause want to replace the above lines with the downloading > and importing of an extract with the extract you care about. > > Although for smaller areas hardware requirements aren't too bad, they > quickly go up beyond what can be handled by a standard desktop computer. > My rough guestimate of what a typical desktop / laptop can handle is > about an extract of 100 - 300 Mb (no more than an hours worth of > import). This covers most of the US and German states, as well as many > of the other less densely mapped countries. > > If you are more serious about your tileserver, you will need to tune the > various configuration settings, but just to play around and for personal > use, the default settings should work reasonable. > > More information can be found on yet another wiki-page... ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ubuntu_tile_server ) > > Any comments or feedback are welcome, > > Kai > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
