[Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 13:02:20 GMT 2011


On 12 December 2011 11:51, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> The main practical obstacle, as I see it, is that OS in their infinite
> wisdom have started supplying the shapefiles in 100km x 100km squares...
> which are certainly far too large to wrangle within a browser-based editor
> like P2, and I suspect some desktop editors may choke too. If someone were
> to create either a download server for smaller tiles (10km x 10km or even
> smaller), or a queryable API for the VMD dataset, we could get stuck in.

/me points to the Snapshot Server, which was designed entirely for the
situation where your background vector layer is too large to load all
in one go.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Snapshot_Server

Cheers,
Andy



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