[OSM-dev] GSoC Ideas

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Miércoles, 25 de Marzo de 2009, Milo van der Linden escribió:
> Mapnik could act as a wms server, but this would not be good for
> performance since all rendering would be done straight from the
> openstreetmap db on the fly.

You're wrong - mapnik depends on a local PostgreSQL database, not on the OSM 
API.

> A better trick would be to implement a tile-layer in a wms image server, the 
> image would then take the required tiles, sticht them together in the 
> requested projection, cut the area that is requested and return that to the 
> client. 

If you're going to do WMS, better to do it from vector data rather than from 
stitching and warping tiles together. You'll ensure better place naming and 
consistent widths.


> Caching with WMS is something that, as far as I know is not common, If
> you can figure out a way of caching and write a proposal,

WMS caches tend to not be efficient, so they end up not helping much. You want 
cached maps? Then use tiles.


Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

Más vale una paz relativa que una guerra ganada.- María Theresa.
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