[OSM-dev] openstreetmap could start at user's approximate location using geo-ip

[Thomas Wood]

2009/1/20 Stefan Ziegler <stefan.ziegler_zst at gmx.de>:
> My Project osm3d  (on Sourceforge) (www.osm3d.org) is  an interactive vector renderer.
> But it works outside of a browser.
> The problem, each renderer have (especially for the interactive ones):
> the huge mass of vector data, you have to sort (location) and draw.
>
> Inside a browser, you may use java3d.
> For example, for Germany, you have Gigabytes of (uncompressed) vector data.
> If you want to get the vector data interactively in small parts, OSM would need much more server power.
>
> There are many other renderers, most of them in 2d. Osmarenderer and Mapnik are typical vector renderer, but not interactive.

Use regional extracts of the database, then.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Extracts

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)