[OSM-dev] Rendering Strategy

[Stephan Plepelits]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:53:47PM +0100, marqqs at gmx.eu wrote:
> 1.: If a tile is requested by a user (and thus served by Apache), it shall be rendered next morning at 5:00.
Why not rendering them as soon as possible? mod_tile[1] will help you with
this.

> 2.: If a tile gets older than 100 days, it shall be rendered regardless of the time it has been displayed last.
Tirex[2] (a replacement of the renderd which ships with mod_tile) might
help you with this.

> Is there already a mechanism I could use? Or do I have to program it from scratch?
I think that existing infrastructure will help you :)

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mod_tile
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tirex

greetings,
        Stephan
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