OpenStreetMap over WMS

Authors

  • Přemysl Vohnout Czech Centrum for Science and Society
  • Jáchym Čepický Help Service Remote Sensing

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/gi.4.5

Keywords:

WMS, OpenStreetMap, Mapserver

Abstract

This paper discuss the issues which we faced, while preparing WMS server with OpenStreetMap data of whole Europe. This article is divided into three sections. First is about mandatory applications which are required for working WMS service with OpenStreetMap data. Second is focused on tuning up PostgreSQL. Third is focused on rendering time improvement of layers.

References

Rendering OpenStreetMap Data with MapServer, online http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmData

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Published

2009-02-01

Issue

Vol. 4 (2009)

Section

Articles

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