fredag den 28. august 2009

Create Customized Maps in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 and Tile Drawer


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Adam DuVander

Making your own map imagery is now much, much easier. Tile Drawer is an Amazon EC2 (our Amazon EC2 API profile) machine image with all the software needed to create your own map tile server.

Tile Drawer example images

The solution, created by Stamen Design’s Michal Migurski, uses Mapnik (an open source GIS toolkit) and Open Street Map data. Mapnik, especially, is notoriously difficult to get working correctly. With the Amazon image created by Migurski, everything is ready to go. All you need to do is tell it which Open Street Map file and stylesheet to use–and Tile Drawer makes several examples available. [...]


Read more: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/08/28/create-customized-maps-in-the-cloud-with-amazon-ec2-and-tile-drawer/

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