[Openstreetmap] more distributed ideas

[Erik Johansson]

On 2/3/06, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Another is to store simplified segment paths. When you're fully zoomed
> in, sure,
> show the full-point version. But when you're viewing a small scale map, you
> actually only need a handful of points to generate the same line. Again, this
> could either be done when the data is loaded/edited, or by means of a
> cron job.

I tried GPSbabel feature to simplify tracks, and you could simplify
the tracks enormously. But when would you do this simplification?
Every time you edit a point you would have to redo the simplification
for that region.


see the wiki
http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/MakingGpxTracks#Simplifying_tracks

>
> Further in the future, a really good way to reduce server load is to use
> client-side rendering technologies like SVG and Flash (for those who
> have them,
> of course, not as the only option).

With textpath support in Firefox(beta), SVG is really an option. You
already have SVG in firefox 1.5.

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/Erik