Getting the UK map going...

An update on this: if you're not aware we now have server space for developing the UK map website and there's now a GitHub organisation (osm-uk) and repo (osmuk), i.e URL = https://github.com/osm-uk/osmuk. Please let me know if you want read/write access to the repo.

Hi Nick,
Any reason why you appear to have created a new, empty https://github.com/osm-uk organisation? https://github.com/osmuk already exists and someone who I had assumed was you https://github.com/nickw1 is a member.
Regards,
Andy

Hello Andy, I'd forgotten about that one initially... also I don't have admin rights on the 'website' repository within it so can't invite other people.

I've now created a 'website_real' repository in 'osmuk'. Will use this from now on; someone with admin rights on 'osmuk' please feel free to delete 'website' and rename 'website_real' to website.

Adam, Robert, Jez, James - please note the real repository is now
https://github.com/osmuk/website_real

Now first commit added to repo. Not much there (just a map and a non-functional login form) but the project is now up and running!

The site is located at
http://47.91.91.133/dev-nick-osm

Hi Nick,

I'd like to join the github team: jnicho02

Regards,
Jez

Hello Jez, have just sent invitation to you and Robert.

Can I join the github project too? I'm rjw62 on github. Thanks!

Hello Jez and Robert, have just sent invitations to you both.

Quick update on this - sorry, there's been some delay getting the permissions I needed on the BiRT server hence no updates for the past couple of weeks. The bad news, for the moment, is that the server space given to us on the BiRT server will only be available until the end of the month, as they are moving to a new server; we should have this server available to us at some point but maybe a month or two after that. Good news though is for the moment I will have superuser access on this server (for the next 2 weeks or so) so can experiment with playing around with the stylesheet - once this is working then I can add a very basic Mapnik stylesheet to the git repository and/or the existing OSM stylesheet which people can then obviously contribute to and/or edit. Also Alan (sys admin of BiRT) is going to recommend some cheap hosting options which we could use for a longer-term solution to hosting the map server.

If absolutely necessary I can also use my Freemap server as an interim solution - if you need an account on that (and you're someone I know/trust) I can always give you access.

Further update. Got a mod_tile setup going on my own Freemap server using only Hampshire - which in many ways is a good county as it has a mix of urban, rural and coastline so a good place to develop any walkers'/PRoW map features. Until the new BiRT server comes online (or we get alternative hosting - Alan from BiRT is coming back to me on this) I'll be using this as the test environment. I will transfer the basic OSM-UK map page here shortly.. will let you know when this is done.

In terms of developing a rendering, any opinions on whether to start something from scratch or just adapt the default OSM style? At the moment I've got it going with v2.45.1 of the standard osm style (newer versions need mapnik 3 which isn't available by default on my distro.. though if necessary I can install it from source)