http://simonwillison.net/2009-08-26T09:32:56+00:00Simon Willison2009-08-26T09:32:56+00:002009-08-26T09:32:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/26/tiledrawer/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://tiledrawer.com/">Tile Drawer</a></strong></p> The most inspired use of EC2 I’ve seen yet: center a map on an area, pick a Cascadenik stylesheet URL (or write and link to your own) and Tile Drawer gives you an Amazon EC2 AMI and a short JSON snippet. Launch the AMI with the JSON as the “user data” parameter and you get your own OpenStreetMap tile rendering server, which self-configures on startup and starts rendering and serving tiles using your custom design. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://mike.teczno.com/notes/tile-drawer.html">Mike Migurski</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon">amazon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cascadenik">cascadenik</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cloud-computing">cloud-computing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ec2">ec2</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapnik">mapnik</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapping">mapping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/michal-migurski">michal-migurski</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openstreetmap">openstreetmap</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/userdata">userdata</a></p>

2008-08-30T10:04:35+00:002008-08-30T10:04:35+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/30/cascadenik/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://mike.teczno.com/notes/cascadenik.html">cascadenik: cascading sheets of style for mapnik</a></strong></p> Great idea. Mapnik (the open source tile rendering system used by OpenStreetMap and others) has a complex style configuration based on XML. Michal Migurski has build a CSS-style equivalent which compiles down to XML, hopefully making it much quicker and easier to get started with Mapnik customisation. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cascadenik">cascadenik</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapnik">mapnik</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapping">mapping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/michal-migurski">michal-migurski</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openstreetmap">openstreetmap</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a></p>