Colophon: Create your own personal Map tiles (from July 2013)
If you want to make your own map tile out of many (100s or 1000s) of latitude longitude pairs e.g. from Vancouver flickr photos taken 2007-2011 during commuter hours (7-10am., 3-6p.m), here's how:
- Create a file, let's call it "latlong.text" in the format "lat, long" e.g. remove the square brackets from my vancouver 2007-11 flickr commuter file
encode it
- cat latlong.txt | ./encode -o vancouver2007-2011 -z 16
render it
./render -A -- vancouver2007-2011/ 16 49.25706 -123.070538525034 49.29808542 -123.159733 > vancouver-2007-2011.try21.png
(you will have to play around with the lat and long to make sure they cover the area you want e.g. in the above example I made it so that bounderies were: clark park to the south and east, connaught park to the west and stanley park to the north)
- And here's the resulting PNG map tile on flickr
encode and render come from @enf on twitter, the amazing Eric Fischer:
to compile encode and render on Mac OS X using Homebrew I had to use Ralph's libpng1.6.3 formula