[OSM-dev] Creating Easy Map Embedding

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon Oct 22 16:43:00 BST 2007


In message <471CC3F2.1000904 at frankieandshadow.com>
          David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> On 22/10/2007 16:27, Andy Allan wrote:
> > What problem are we trying to solve?
> 
> It appears that the current server is unable to deliver tiles
> efficiently, given the number of failures presently; and the discussion
> arose partly because of the speculation that Oxford University
> "borrowing" tiles would overwhelm the server.

Um... What failures would that be?

> > Bandwidth is effectively unlimited...
> 
> So it is the server itself then.

No, it's the rubbish software architecture on the server. Which is
why Jon is creating a new one as discussed last week.

Is the collective memory of this list really less than one week?

Tom

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