[OSM-dev] announcing a new mailinglist tile-serving

[Sven Geggus]

Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com> wrote:

> having two or more styles based on the same data. this is something I
> believe tirex will allow me to do.

IMO the main advantage of tirex is its independance of render
backends. While renderd intermixes actual rendering and queue
management tirex uses different jobs for this.

Thus one can easily run a tileserver where one style is based
on mapnik while the other one is based on umn mapserver instead.

Regards

Sven

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