[OSM-dev] Obtain SLD style for osm

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> Have a look at http://osm.omniscale.de/ There is a possibility to compare the
> speed of TMS and pure WMS.  WMS does not need to be awfully slow.  However, I do
> not know what Omniscale is doing for accelerating pure non-tiled WMS.

I don't know details either but if you switch projections you'll 
immediately see that they are warping bitmaps instead of doing what one 
would call "pure" WMS. There are several free attempts at providing a 
bitmap-backed WMS in OSM, I think that crschmidt used to work on 
something like that, as well as OJW. I don't know if any of them ever 
completed anything though.

> WMS GIS clients let the users select the layers they want to see and it may be a
> nice feature as well.

Not if the WMS comes from pre-rendered tiles...

Bye
Frederik