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Last couple of weeks I spent some time building fake counties, cities and suburbs in Nevada desert (where I figured it would not hurt anyone) just to see how they would render in Mapnik. (I am working on a problem of getting county, city and name rendered without having to drop a place=* node where I want to see the label and I have not found the solution yet, but that's a separate question.) It occurred to me that I many not be going the best way about it: Is there a safe way to play with OSM/Mapnik without installing any server components of my own? Is there an official Mapnik sandbox perhaps, and if not, how can I create one on the fly? |
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For producing your own tiles without installing big software frameworks have a look at Maps_on_a_Stick or OpenStreetMap-in-a-Box When you have detailed questions about one of this or other solutions, come over to the OSM forum or the OSM mailinglists. Thanks, looks like one or both can fit the bill, although Maps On a Stick have a 219 Mb download. As far as osminabox, would "how do I get started?" be considered a detailed question?
(18 Apr '11, 22:39)
ponzu
And the second question before I forget: the tiles I produce with these service would be Mapnik tiles, right? And if so, will they be using the master OSM stylesheet, a stylesheet that's specific to these services, or a stylesheet of my choosing?
(18 Apr '11, 22:40)
ponzu
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Adding things to OSM which don't actually exist is vandalism. Please don't do it. 1
Understood. Do you have anything you can recommend as an officially approved rendering sandbox? I am a fairly technical guy (not that I understand how OSM or Mapnik works), but I could not figure out how get started with stephan's advice above.
(20 Apr '11, 23:15)
ponzu
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There is a dev API, which you can add things to without bothering anyone: http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org Though I'm not sure if it will actually be rendered by anything.
(20 Apr '11, 23:22)
Vclaw
Thanks, it looks promising, but I need to figure out a way to get my changes rendered. Is that (easily) doable? After all, I was looking for a Mapnik sandbox, not OSM sandbox. (Although it's good to know where it is in case I need it one day.)
(20 Apr '11, 23:51)
ponzu
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Is there nothing else online to try rendering test objects in the context of the real OSM data? So far, having a Nevada test site is the best I can do. My only concern is potential impact on Nominatim. I am not clear on how long I can leave my fake cities, counties and other objects in the desert without risk of having them become part of the index.