OSM's future. [Openstreetmap]

[Gari Araolaza]

Hi,

Some propositions to temporarily help improving performance from the
users side (yes, temporary solutions). Sorry if any of them sounds
stupid, I'm just trying to help in some way, just brainstorming:

- Giving free access to web server's access stats (webalizer like), so
that we can choose the right time/day to come by editing. It's sunday
morning ( 8:00-9:00 CET) and I've noticed a improved performance while
editing this morning. I assume most of you are sleeping. :-)

- Restricting the Zoom levels, so that tiles don't have to be created
for any zoom level, but just for 4, 5 or whatever levels. We should
have an indicator of the actual zoom level too, so that we know if
we're at 3, 7 or at 14 level. Sometimes I'm just zooming to go to a
given area, and I notice that the tile server is working for every
click I do on the + and - buttons.

- Sometimes, working with GPS tracks,  we don't need the tiles at all,
so, why not to have an option to deactivate them? It would be very
useful now, as the Landsat data is not working and we get a white tile
that hides the yellow GPS tracks (given to low contrast). At that
point, it would be interesting too if we could click somewhere to get
a single tile for that area.

- I will prepare a bookmarklet so that we can go editing to a given
point from Google Maps. I mean: zooming and panning to a given point
just to start editing  is a pain with the actual tile server
performance. So, I will go to Google Maps, zoom and select the point
I'm going to start editing, and then click on the bookmarklet that
will send me directly to edit that area in OSM, let's say, at a 14
zoom level.

Gari