[OSM-dev] Ways on the new renderer... maybe usable after all!

[Tom Carden]

On 30/06/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> It might also be worthwhile rendering higher zoom levels against the
> planet.osm dataset (and making this clear to users!) -- this would allow
> for the higher-level rendering to be done more quickly, since it's
> against an already existing, seldom changing dataset, and if people want
> better accuracy, they can zoom in further. If this path were followed,
> then the cache for the higher level tiles could be set to be 30 days
> instead of 48 hours, and then when planet.osm was created and processed,
> the older dataset would have to be cleared from the squid cache.
>

That is a really good idea.  Nick - your original prototypes for this
pulled data out of tables built from planet.osm, right?  So all that's
needed is to put this on the main OSM server and branch your code.

Longer term, the file based cache is the way forward I think.

T.