[Openstreetmap] Distributed servers for osm

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

> what Do you think of a distributed architecture for OSM. Let anyone who
> is willing to support OSM run a bittorrent-style server for OSM.
> Servers are syncing p2p and anyone who accesses OSM gets redirected to a
> server around the world, i.e. randomly or in a more dedicated way.

I think the requests are very local. Requests from IP's within the UK will
almost anytime request UK-data.

This makes simple caches strategies of the data very powerfull. So I
suggest not destroying this advantage by randomize access requests.


Better build a cache-server specialized for osm requests (or tile-requests).


Another thing: Do not fix performance without profiling. Statistically,
"improvements" without prior profiling worse performance.


Ciao, Imi.