[josm-dev] JOSM Server

[Ian Dees]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> > From: Dirk Stöcker [mailto:openstreetmap at dstoecker.de]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:31 PM
> > To: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: Re: [josm-dev] JOSM Server
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Simon Legner wrote:
> >
> > > What about re-generating this file on modification and shipping as
> > > fast as possible (using Apache directly, Nginx or Varsnish). Maybe,
> > > having a subdomain for static content might be worth a try (getting
> > > rid of cookies, sessions etc.).
> >
> > /maps is cached now.
> >
> > In a test I saw that editing the maps page is awful slow. It really must
> > be splitted. Takes about 45 seconds to change the page (after I improved
> > the validation, before it took many minutes).
>
> It's also hard to edit a wiki page that long. I've been copying the page
> out
> to a text editor, editing it, the pasting it back in. With the size the
> page
> is I think it should either be split into multiple sub-pages (global,
> Americas, Europe, etc) or managed with source code version control. The
> Wiki
> was not designed for a massive XML page.


Trying to edit the wiki page is why I started the project to abstract away
the imagery XML into separate files. My GitHub project already breaks apart
the JOSM imagery XML into one file per entry to make it easier to edit and
can be combined back together to build the JOSM imagery XML again.