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? asked 18 Apr '11, 19:12 ponzu aseerel4c26 ♦ |
Adding things to OSM which don't actually exist is vandalism. Please don't do it. answered 20 Apr '11, 23:11 Vclaw 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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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. answered 18 Apr '11, 20:36 stephan75 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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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.