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Still, judging by the parent comment, it sounds like setting up a tile server in OSM isn't exactly trivial. Rather than editing, In my comment above, I meant Po
by ezzzzz 7y ago
Still, judging by the parent comment, it sounds like setting up a tile server in OSM isn't exactly trivial. Rather than editing, In my comment above, I meant PostGIS, not OpenGIS.
Anyway, I was interested in this at the time for a hobby project and (rightly) decided the effort would not be worth it. Thanks for the insight!
- samcrawford 7y agoDepends on the level of effort you want to put into it. I've been working on a hobby project with PostGIS recently, and I've found it very easy to get started (a few hours to get PostGIS running + import just the UK's dataset using osm2pgsql). But it's taken me months to get to a point where I'd say I'm pretty experienced with it.
- ezzzzz 7y agoAwesome, thanks for the tip. Osm2pgsql looks very interesting, the docs lead me Mapnik which is pretty much what I was looking for.
- dvdkon 7y agoImporting OSM data into PostGIS is mostly painless with imposm3, probably because it's actually documented, unlike most other pieces in the tile-serving stack. The biggest hurdle is probably understanding both the OSM and SQL way of thinking.
- ezzzzz 7y agoInteresting, a cursory glance at the git repo for imposm3 looks promising. Which also lead me to https://mapproxy.org/ https://mapproxy.org/ which the maintainers of imposm3 also created. I understand your comment about sql thinking, in my day-to-day work I'm a bit of a reluctant sql developer (shudders in procedural spaghetti) but am gaining appreciation for being able to hand off aggregations and calculations to the db.