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

[Robert Vollmert]

On Jan 20, 2009, at 22:51, Stefan Ziegler wrote:
> 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.

How about tiled vector data, say through OJW's tile data server http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tile_data_server 
  ?

Cheers
Robert