Re:TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps
by eblade on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @02:09AM
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Question: where did get the map and terrain data from if I may know? I used shapefiles from OpenStreetMap but they aren't as complete as I thought they are.
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Re:TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps
by cullenking on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @11:13AM
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Map data is a complete OSM planet import - 20gb compressed file, expanded/indexed into a 225gb database. OSM has lots of good data but most custom styled maps leave out a good amount of it, or, in the case of the OSM style maps, they include way too much.
Importing and indexing planet.osm takes a while. It's better than importing the whole planet file in gazetteer mode for geocoding though. I have been fighting that import for a month now, on decent hardware!