[OSM-dev] downloading partial tilesets to serve locally

[Erik Johansson]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Tom Lancaster <tom at newhanoian.com> wrote:
> 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

Varnish is a nice "modern" reverse proxy which is what you want, if
you only want to proxy one site.

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/