[Talk-in] Indian OSM server

Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 21:05:47 UTC 2015


Shekhar,
Thanks for your efforts and thoughts on this. I think we'll be fine with a
VM for now.
Also, I am open to some financial contributions for this specific purpose,
if needed.
Regards,
Ishan

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at topomancy.com>
wrote:

> This then goes back to the hosting question. Our original offer was
> co-hosting on the server which also hosts OHM (and ChaloBEST). This is
> apparently undesirable to the community.
>
> We could provide a dedicated box, but that was not my intent in restarting
> this thread, which goes back years. My aim was to remove the obstacle if
> hosting and storage are issues.
>
> Also hosting at HBCSE/TIFR (where I work and where Johnson made a start on
> this) is not reliable, as sys-admins there are few and overburdened, and
> servi es are unreliable.
>
> At this point only a small number of active OSM India enthusiasts would be
> using this service. Can we use a VM for now? If we're asking for a
> dedicated box I'll have to approach Tim and Schuyler in Topomancy to see if
> they agree.
>
> Can't Mapbox India underwrite this small expense for the India community?
> Mikel, any thoughts?
>
> S.K.
> On Jan 27, 2015 8:33 PM, "Sanjay Bhangar" <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey hey,
>>
>> Many apologies for the confusion there, then - I think I was half
>> remembering conversations from some time ago where that was the plan.
>> If the plan is just to mirror the OSM data and provide alternate
>> styles more appropriate for India and localized, let's rock on :)
>>
>> I guess we still need a server for this, though, as people have
>> rightly pointed out, its probably not a good idea to co-host with OHM.
>>
>> Thanks - and sorry again for the confusion :) - great to know that the
>> boundary issue can also be managed with styles alone, that sounds
>> great.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sanjay
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:27 PM, H.S.Rai <hardeep.rai at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The boundaries remain a big reason to have our own tiles. All this
>> takes is
>> >> changes to the stylesheet, not the data itself.
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > I am unable to get message which caused this confusion.
>> >
>> > We intend to have only tile server.
>> >
>> > --
>> > H.S.Rai
>> >
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