Ah, ok, so the -a flag should give me what I want. Apologies for the noise, I'll rtfm next time :)
Cheers all, Joseph On 18 October 2011 15:26, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Kai, > > Thanks a lot for this, it seems to be working well for me. I've got a > question, although I accept that it might be a osm2pgsql query. > > I followed the instructions and imported Turkey into my db - this > worked fine and I was happily rendering maps of the country. Since > then I have used the same osm2pgsql command to import Bulgaria and > Romania, but this seems to be causing issues: > > At the moment, only northern Romania is rendering as expected - for > Turkey and Bulgaria I'm only seeing either pre-rendered tiles or new > tiles based on nothing more than the coastline data. As far as I can > tell, the only data currently in my db is for northern Romania. > > How best to check this? Is there a way to remove the pre-rendered > tiles and create new ones from the contents of my db? Is there a > different command I should be running to append data to an existing > database? > > Thanks again, Joseph > > > > > On 9 October 2011 23:13, Kai Krueger <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 -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 >> > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk