[OSM-dev] WMS

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2008/6/25 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:

> Hi all,
>
>
> First of all, I want to say that WMS sucks. The 100-page spec sucks, the
> efficiency sucks.
>
>
> That said, I just committed to SVN a set of hacks I've come to call "OSM
> WMS".
>
> Why? Long story short, this will allow me to promote OSM to GIS people. Or,
> as
> FakeSteveC would say, Arctards.
>
> 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.
>

This is probably a good idea.  Do you have any servers in mind?


>
> (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?
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> ----------------------------------
> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
>
> Don't tell any big lies today.  Small ones can be just as effective.
>
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