[OSM-dev] Creating Easy Map Embedding

Steve Coast steve at asklater.com
Thu Oct 25 07:43:26 BST 2007


On 22 Oct 2007, at 16:43, Tom Hughes 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.

/me feels offended


> 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?

...

have fun,

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