[OSM-dev] Distributed Data Store

[Scott Shawcroft]

Hi all,
My friend Jason (cced) and I are seniors at the University of Washington 
in Computer Science and Engineering.  On your FAQ you say people 
interested in distributing the database across multiple computers should 
email the list.  Well, here we are.  We are currently in a distributed 
systems capstone course during which we need to spend the quarter (until 
mid March) on a single substantial project.

We're interested in trying our hand at creating a better system for 
storing OSM data.  We're interested in what kind of computing resources 
to design for (how many machines) and whether we can get access logs in 
order to test our implementation against.

Also, we'd love to have OSM community members involved since we're new 
to the organization.

Lastly, I think we plan to donate our code to the community with the 
hope that it is useful.

What do you think?

~Scott Shawcroft