Re:How to set up an OpenStreetMap server
by maxerickson on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:59AM
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The switch2osm guides cover what I would call the interesting side of this, primarily the tile server and geocoder. A lot of the other stuff actually depends on external services (the navigation, some of the queries).
If you aren't the nexus of worldwide OpenStreetMap editing (which parts of osm.org are that), there isn't so much reason to run a whole bunch of the stuff. You don't need to support thousands of people making edits, if you aren't capturing edits you don't need a system to replicate them out to data consumers. Etc, etc.
If you aren't the nexus of worldwide OpenStreetMap editing (which parts of osm.org are that), there isn't so much reason to run a whole bunch of the stuff. You don't need to support thousands of people making edits, if you aren't capturing edits you don't need a system to replicate them out to data consumers. Etc, etc.