[OSM-dev] Creating Easy Map Embedding

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 16:53:24 BST 2007


On 10/22/07, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> 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?

No, I'm just expecting everything to double every fortnight!

Cheers,
Andy




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