<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3422">Hi all.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3421"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3330">I want to use OpenStreet Map as a base layer and my own polygons that Mapserver will pull from PostGIS tables. I'm a bit confused about the OSM concept and I was thinking of just using openlayers to render the OSM and... that's it..! But then I came across this article <a href="https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Rendering-OSM-data-on-Ubuntu-12.04" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3338">https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Rendering-OSM-data-on-Ubuntu-12.04</a> so....</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3330"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3330">what is a good approach? and what is the difference between these two approaches?</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3330"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3330">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3330">Stefanos. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461255087186_3330"><br></div></div></body></html>