DIY Openstreetmap Slippy map
by rullzer on Aug.31, 2008, under Gentoo, Programming things
It has been long since my last post. Too long. I won’t fill you up on all the things I have done. Or maybe I will in other posts. But today I want to talk about openstreetmap.
As you might (or might not) know openstreetmap aims to provide a free (as in speech) map of the world. You can help by adding or editing the map. This is what I have been doing the last couple of months. Mostly fixing roads or adding new cycleways. Now of course cycling is good exercise. And it feels good to contribute to a free world map. However the real kick is seeing your changes of your work!
This can be seen on the main website. However that is only updated once a week. There are several other tile servers that serve a part of the map. These servers are generally updated more often. However when you use a tile server you are can’t change the rendering. So how great would it be to create your own rendering?
Check out my wiki entry. Of course it is a wiki so add all improvement you can think of.
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October 27th, 2011 on 10:43 pm
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December 8th, 2011 on 7:11 pm
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