Toolserver:OpenStreetMap


 * OpenStreetMap server
 * Maps server setup tasks
 * OpenStreetMap

projects

 * The multilingual maps are also an interesting aspect of OSM.
 * We render hike-and-bike-map and some nice hillshading tiles also for other maps.
 * query-to-map extract some datas from OSM.


 * OSM-Geohack seems useful to come with 2 clicks from Wikipedia to each OSM-map. Example (Potsdam,Germany)
 * German Geohack shows now directly a OSM-map. (example)

first steps
With a toolserver account you can access the database with: psql -h sql-mapnik osm_mapnik from the normal login server

first steps in PHP
Here a little PHP-Example to get a list of streets in a bounding box:

test your style
thanks to river we have a quite nice rendeing stack on willow. You can use the command line tool /home/project/o/s/m/osm/bin/render to test your own styles and if they're ready you can mail them to this list so we can configure renderd to render tiles for them.

To show the capabilities of the new hstore scheme in conjunction with the rendering system, I created a style that renders surveillance cctvs on a transparent overlay. It's a quite simple style but it shows how to do things. It's located at /home/project/o/s/m/osm/data/styles/surveillance/surveillance.xml and should be redable for everyone.

to render a map of germany in this style, just log on to willow and call

render --bbox 5.56,55.04,15.35,47.15 --style /home/mazder/styles/surveillance/surveillance.xml --size 2000x2000

it will create a map.png if the current directory. Call /home/project/o/s/m/osm/bin/render --help to learn about the possible parameters.

You'll want to add /home/project/o/s/m/osm/bin/ to your PATH in your .bash_profile so you can just all render without a path.

I also added the style to the renderd config and you can take a look at it under http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/?zoom=12&lat=52.50546&lon=13.42461&layers=00TB0 The style is not perfect, the icons are too big but hey - its just a sample.

If you want your own style on the tile server, please write a mail to maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org.

Wishlist for tags
We have now all tags in our database for mapnik using the hstore column. Read http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2010-May/000623.html and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2010-May/000645.html to learn how to use them.