[OSM-dev] Tile caching

[Dean Earley]

>> Steve says that the API can't currently get the "last update" in a
>> bounding box but its easy with direct DB access (0.4? :).
>> If we were to implement caching based on this time, it would allow for
>> near instant updates and almost indefinate caching for unchanged tiles.
>> Of course, we couldn't just rely on the browser cahcing and would nbeed to
>> cache internally based on the same "last modified" time.
> 
> This is why we had that long thread about using quadtiles, to store
> what has been changed.

Ahh, sorry. Most of that thread went right over my head :)

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