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<p>It should be noted that while there are many reasons for slow
tile loading, including the tragedy of the commons issue we are
having, in the US a large reason is</p>
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<p>that is three tile caches in North America vs. 27 or so for
Europe (very comparable population wise). Given the tile cache
network is based on donated services, the US community has it
completely in their own hands to improve the situation. I'm not
going to dwell on the irony of the situation, but just point out
that a reasonable tile server does not have any large associated
hardware or running cost and that we have caches in places that
are order of magnitudes smaller and poorer.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I listened in on today's Board meeting. I'd like to
suggest going forward that the Board get regular status reports
from the Operations Working Group. Lately tile have been slow to
load, at least in the US. Grant Slater has been great about
communicating with the community when problems arise.
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<div>Since running the servers is one of the few actual
responsibilities the Foundation has, it should be one of the
key priorities. According to Grant, we need about 30% more
capacity. OWG is also looking for more members to help. (I'd
love to volunteer, but my background, telecommunications,
mainly involved getting data between data centers and the
user) Having the Board step up to insure our IT infrastructure
is capable of meeting the needs of the user would be a welcome
step.</div>
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