[maps.soton] Re: Future Maintainability

[Christopher Baines]

On 31/03/15 11:19, Ashley Smith wrote:
> I've been making some progress albieit slowly. My main priority at
> present is to implement a tile server that iSolutions can support, as
> the current maps.soton one is a bunch of cached tiles generated from a
> VM that will almost certainly disappear when Chris leaves. So far things
> are going well, at least technically, I've decided that bulk generation
> is definitely better than dynamically generated tiles as it has far less
> system restrictions for the world-facing service. Once the tech all
> works I'll work towards getting different sets of tiles up as well, for
> example, one that shows roads more prominently (not too different from
> normal OSM) and another that looks as close as possible to the printed
> University maps as possible. I've not really been up to much else with
> regards to maps, other than ensuring the open data is up to date
> (Boldrewood, etc)

I have just had a quick look at bulk generation, and have managed to
make some tiles. If you have not got this far, I can show you the method
I used?

> Chris, I'd be really grateful for the carto files we are currently using
> as they will provide a good starting point for this.

Ok, I'll try to publish stuff at some point today. All the stuff is on
kanga-cb15g11 though, and you have an account (ash) which has root.