[OSM-talk] Organisation of Wiki pages

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Saturday 26 August 2006 01:16, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > In the long term I totally agree.   But right now the slippy map takes 8
> > minutes to show anything useful.  That's not acceptable.
>
> Isn't it best to have renderers running off a planet based database rather
> than the main database anyhow? The main database deals with versioning
> stuff and hence any rendering from it will be much slower than a database
> without versioning stuff.

I would definitely vote for this.

What about putting together some static page like the following:
http://www.ostertag.name/osm/maps/Cities/index.html

For a temporary solution to new users to have a look at some rendered maps; I 
tried to copy together some of the osm maps i found all over the wiki+web. 
This is only a quick try. But if you like it; I can add more images to it. 
And If you want the headers/Footers different. This shouldn't be too much of 
a problem. Since the script doing all the html stuff arround the images is 
selfwritten and easy to change. If you want any other maps to be shown there. 
Just drop me a mail with these images.

Comments welcome.

Another method would be to have a render script (as I already suggested) which 
renders multiple images from planet-xx.osm. I can run it every time a new 
planet comes out and put the results on this page too. So area script 
suggestions are welcome.

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Joerg