[Openstreetmap] Wiki down?

[David Sheldon]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:27:43AM -0800, Jo Walsh wrote:
> Have you considered something like "sharding", like the MMORPGs have
> to do when they get overfull? And synchronise the shards every N
> hours. I wonder how complex this could wind up. A hard one, how much
> complexity is necessary complexity? :)

Just a thought, and this might be what you are refering to as sharding,
but could we redirect based on the lattitude/longditude, and
serve/store all the American (continent) points/map segments in the US,
and the European points/map segments in the UK.

Is it possible to pick lines down the middle of the Atlantic and
pacific such that no road will cross them?

I guess this wouldn't help if all of the new points are in Europe as all
the load would still be on the same machine.

I haven't really thought about the complexity either but it does sound
interesting. Would they even need syncing, or would that be just for
backups and stats?

David
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