Re: rc ping

by Guenther Meyer :: Rate this Message:

Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 schrieb Hamish:

> Guenther:
> > > afaik it is used for the offline maps generation from
> > > the mapnik database.
>
> Joerg:
> > Or ...... let me think about it; maybe it would be possible
> > to move it to the *-utils packages ...
>
> if it does as Guenther says, that would seem like the appropriate
> place for it. by "offline maps generation" do you mean no gpsdrive
> running as well as no internet hookup? (ie morning prep work on laptop
> harddrive while on the road in new territory)
>

there's a python script called something like mapnik-gentiles.py that can

render the mapnik tiles from the osm postgis database.
the created tiles would take a lot of disk space, but then you don't have to
use the mapnik live rendering while running gpsdrive...

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