[OSM-dev] downloading partial tilesets to serve locally

[Tom Lancaster]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega
<ivan at sanchezortega.es>wrote:

> El Lunes, 5 de Enero de 2009, Tom Lancaster escribió:
> > newhanoian.com has been leading an effort to complete the OSM Hanoi map
> > recently, and we're at a point where we'd like to use OSM tiles in place
> of
> > our custom Gmaps + tilelayer solution. Since we're in vietnam we'd like
> to
> > download a tileset for Hanoi and the surrounding area and serve it from
> our
> > server rather than rely on tile.openstreetmap.org, which is
> > network-distant.
>
> How about setting up a www proxy? It seems to me like an easy solution to
> serve up-to-date tiles efficiently.
>

This seems to be the consensus advice, and something I hadn't thought of. Do
people use squid for this?

Thanks very much,

Tom

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