local tile server for osm rendering

[joemax]

hi map freaks.

i absolutely love the local rendering of osm tiles from vector
sources. you did a great job on this. my idea was... couldnt we
harvest this effort and make the realtime-rendering usable for other
mapping apps on android as well?

both oruxmaps and twonav can access wms or osm tile servers on the
web. if we take the rendering code from osmand and stuff if into a
little "local tile server app", both programs would instantly benefit
from locally rendered offline osm data.

http://localhost:1234/getosmtile?config=bicycle.xml&x=1&y=2&z=3 or
something comes to mind.

any opinions on this?

greetings,
joe.

[Tibor Arpas]

Code re-use would be great. The code will probably need some refactoring to accomodate that. And as far as i've heard Victor is willing to accept refactoring effort (patches) from external projects :).

Do you imagine that the user would have both OsmAnd and the other application installed? The Osmand instance would provide UI for data download/management  and of course the rendering engine service.  I think that's a goog way to go.

Tibor

[joemax]

well... in an ideal world, the rendering server & download ui would be
separate and used by oruxmaps and other apps. but it doesnt really
matter that much, the code could also remain in osmand i guess.
.