[Talk-GB] Efficient processing of map data for rendering (BOINC).

[Chris Andrew]

Hi, everybody.

I notice that people often mention the delay in map edits being
applied and made _live_.

With the OSM community growing by the day, this problem can only get
bigger.  Does anyone know whether anyone has consider using a
distributed client [1] such as BOINC [2] to do the _number crunching_?

For those not familiar, it means that anyone's computer can use spare
processing power to do calculations, without disturbing the normal
work of the computer.

[1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing

[2]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boinc

Just an idea.

Cheers,

Chris.

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