[OSM-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: T at H server will go away end of February

[Matthias Meißer]

Bad to hear. But maybe this is the right moment, we should care about a 
real easy to use distributed rendering approach, again? A lot of project 
use BOINC for managing/promoting their jobs, so I started a page for a 
centralized discussion (no I'm not planning to port OSM to BOINC)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BOINC

bye
Matthias
(user:!i!)

Am 01.02.2012 12:15, schrieb Sebastian Spaeth:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just informed that the central ETH IT took an issue with the
> constant large bandwidth that the t at h server uses. In addition the
> server is four years old and getting old and senile...
>
> This means that end of February, the T at h server will be shut down and go
> away. Unless a replacement server (&admin) is being found, that will
> also likely imply that the T at H service will go away (together with the
> tiles web server) at that point.
>
> I have previously argued, why I believe that a t at h service is not that
> crucial anymore, although I still believe it is good that it was
> there. I am not sure if and what should replace t at h, but generally
> speaking there are so many ways now to customize and get rendered tiles,
> that t at h is a bit of a dinosaur. A fun one though :-)
>
> I would like to thank the ETH Zurich, and specifically the Institute for
> Cartography of Prof. Lorenz Hurni (http://wwww.karto.ethz.ch) that had been sponsoring the server and the bandwidth over
> the course of four years. They have been very generous, and never
> complained about the bandwidth/diskspace  we were hogging all the
> time. Finally a special thanks to Claudia Matthys, their IT sysadmin who
> helped to purchase, setup and administer the thing.
>
> Also thanks to the legions of renderers, client developers, and style
> tweakers, such as Bob Kare, Petschge, Dirk Lüder-Kreie, the ROMA and
> TRAPI developers, and the people involved in running the read-only
> mirror architecture. That was and is amazing work that diverse people
> have been putting together there.
>
> I am not that much into mapping any more, but I will hang around and am
> open to other fun projects.
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
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