[OSM-dev] downloading partial tilesets to serve locally

[Stefan de Konink]

Erik Johansson wrote:
> 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/

The Dutch speed tile layer uses Cherokee and a python script to generate 
tiles when a 404 is issued. The performance is extremely good, and it is 
an all in one solution.


Stefan