[OSM-dev] How to earn undying fame

[Tom Hughes]

On 21/06/10 18:02, Nic Roets wrote:

> The amount of time and RAM used is proportional to the square of the
> distance between the 'from' and the 'two' marker. So the load can
> easily be managed by placing an upper limit on it.  So when we see an
> increase in the load (e.g. TV show), a small reduction in that upper
> limit will solve the problem.

Things which require manual intervention are not ideal though. We don't 
have a staff of full time administrators in a position to monitor and 
adjust things like that.

>> Well if somebody can provide a backend that returns a GPX or KML or something then I'm sure
>> somebody will hack up the rails port to be able to display those routes.
>
> You can look at the current "cgi" spec. It's richer than plain GPX,
> but still quite simple. Using sed or awk to change it to GPX is quite
> straight forward.

Cool. Not that we'll be using sed or awk of course, but that doesn't 
matter so long as there is something.

All we need now is a volunteer to run the server in the way that Brian 
does for the geocoding server.

I would also add that I'm aware of at least one other candidate for the 
job of providing a routing solution so I'm not sure exactly where we 
will go from here but it is certainly something I would expect to see 
being addressed soon.

Tom

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