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

[Sven Geggus]

Matthias Meißer <digi_c at arcor.de> wrote:

> Bad to hear. But maybe this is the right moment, we should care about a 
> real easy to use distributed rendering approach, again?

To be serious, I consider distributed rendering "broken by design".

Here is why: 

Distributed computing is usually a good idea when computing takes more time
than data transmission. Otherwise it just does not make sense to transmit
the data rather then just computing it right at the place where it is
needed.

What is probably needed for OSM in the long run is some kind of
geographically distributed rendering e.g. rendering divided by continent.

Sven

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