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

[LeedsTracker]

2009/1/21 Chris Andrew <cjhandrew at gmail.com>:
> 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_?

The osmarender layers are done with a similar idea:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiles%40home

Not quite a neat little client like BOINC, distributed.net etc. but it
works, and turns around within hours.

Doing the same thing for the Mapnik layer would be a whole 'nother project!

cheers,
LT