[OSM-dev] Slippy map's future

[James R Glasgow]

One solution to this problem would be to set up a system of mirrors, 
volunteers mirroring a central server running the same software and data 
kept in sync with something like rsync. When someone made a map request 
the openstreetmap.com server could return a location redirect to the 
requesting party with the address of the requested page on a 
geographically close mirror. This should lessen the load on the main server.

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> This Saturday, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
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>> We really need OSM to be as amenable to mashups as Google is 
>> now,
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> This sounds nice, but you forget that Google has immense hardware 
> and manpower resources behind its services.  This doesn't scale 
> for us.  However, there is a way out:
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>> * The slippy map should be based off planet, to maximise performance.
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> If we can make an easy to follow recipe for setting up a slippy 
> map server and loading it with the latest weekly planet.osm dump, 
> anybody can set up a server, tweak the software, and create their 
> own experimental services.  The amount of traffic they draw will 
> be independent of OSM's central hardware resources.
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