>The CDN is new - it has only really kicked off in the last few months.<br><br>Ah, ok, thanks. Somehow I was under the impression that it had been around for longer.<br><br>>
We are actively looking for new nodes, especially in certain areas such as south east asia and north and south america.<br><br>That pretty much answers the original question then!<br><br>
>It's not something to be done too lightly though - we don't want
hundreds of people offering to serve a few tiles from their >spare room
or anything like that. Rather we are looking for reliable well connected
machines.<br><br>Of course. I was thinking about the sorts of organisations that provide mirroring for Linux distributions and the like - ISPs, educational & large organisations. All the sorts of groups I'm sure you've been thinking of.<br>
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What sort of documentation? You seem to have already found most of the relevant stuff.<br><br>Ok, I didn't know if there was any additional technical documentation or any more usage stats available. Presumably the DNS bit is pretty straightforward, and members of the CDN just mirror the original OSM database. <br>
<br>I would be interested in how a user's tileserver is determined, however; if I'm physically halfway between Sjöbo and Brisbane is my tileserver decided by a calculated round-trip time to a server, or does it rely on a simple rule such as "you're in India, so your tiles come from Sweeden"?<br>
<br>Thanks, Joseph<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 November 2012 12:59, Tom Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@compton.nu" target="_blank">tom@compton.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 15/11/12 12:35, Joseph Reeves wrote:<br>
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I've recently been thinking more than usual about local OSM mirrors in<br>
places far from London; local, independent, mirrors are an option that<br>
people seem to be increasingly using, but I rarely see mention of the<br>
Tile CDN. Is this something we should be encouraging? I've only joined<br>
this list this year, so please excuse me if this has come up before. I<br>
had a quick Google, but saw nothing obvious.<br>
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The CDN is new - it has only really kicked off in the last few months.<br>
<br>
We are actively looking for new nodes, especially in certain areas such as south east asia and north and south america.<br>
<br>
It's not something to be done too lightly though - we don't want hundreds of people offering to serve a few tiles from their spare room or anything like that. Rather we are looking for reliable well connected machines.<div class="im">
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With Switch2OSM proving so popular, is there an opportunity to promote<br>
the CDN to high volume tile consumers?<br>
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Most high volume consumers will not be using our servers.<div class="im"><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Final question: Is there documentation available for the CDN / GeoDNS?<br>
I'd like to read up on this some more.<br>
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What sort of documentation? You seem to have already found most of the relevant stuff.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Tom<br>
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Tom Hughes (<a href="mailto:tom@compton.nu" target="_blank">tom@compton.nu</a>)<br>
<a href="http://compton.nu/" target="_blank">http://compton.nu/</a><br>
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