[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Software development - most pressing issues

[Tom Hughes]

In message <20071129152053.12j9bb59wc840w8w at webmail.systemed.net>
        Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> In message <20071129151236.fqzrjjv40w8cg8ks at webmail.systemed.net>
>>         Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>>> 1. Near-instant updating of Mapnik layer to show user's changes
>>
>> Maybe we should to things that are likely to be achievable?
>
> Well, it depends on your definition of "near". Five seconds probably  
> requires a supercomputer. Five hours doesn't and would still be an  
> enormous improvement.

Judging by the current 1000000+ tile backlog it will something
significant doing to increase the rate at which tiles can be
rendered.

>> Me I would vote for making Potlatch use the main API, or at least
>> rewriting the Potlatch API code to use the rails object model.
>
> If the latter could be done while retaining the same performance I'd  
> be 100% up for it. I'm pretty emphatic that it still needs to speak  
> AMF rather than XML though, but given that all the AMF Ruby code is  
> there and stable, that's not much of an issue.

No problem speaking AMF - there are lots of ways to make rails
return different format data to different clients.

Tom

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