[Openstreetmap] speed, at last

[Lars Aronsson]

Erik Johansson wrote:

> I don't know for sure but from the onearth XML description, it 
> says that all the data takes up 1.66TB of space. And Mikel has 
> stated before that it takes up 4TB to store it localy.

These 4 TB seem to contain a lot that we don't need.

So, my web browser gets tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org, which 
gets them from onearth.jpl.nasa.gov.  Are the raw tiles cached at 
OSM before adding white lines or yellow dots?  That would minimize 
our dependency on the NASA server.


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