[OSM-dev] WMS

[Stefan de Konink]

Iván Sánchez Ortega schreef:
> However, the current implementation has the potential of pounding the API down 
> to its knees (no caching of any kind). In fact, I think it has more bugs than 
> features.
> 
> So, I'd like to know if you think it would be a good idea to do load balancing 
> between several OSMXAPI servers.
> 
> (Yes, I know the best solution is to set up a local mirror of the database 
> given a planet dump, and get the data from there. I just wanted to make 
> something very simple to set up.)
> 
> Also, would it be a good idea to call OSMXAPI with the whole earth as a BBOX 
> and try to render the whole coastline? Any ideas on how an OSM WMS would 
> behave on such large requests?

If you would like to test it on an external datasource, and have only 
SQL request, I'm happy to port the WMS stuff in a new handler for my 
webserver osm plugin.


Stefan