[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Slippy map's future

[Lars Aronsson]

This Saturday, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> We really need OSM to be as amenable to mashups as Google is 
> now,

This sounds nice, but you forget that Google has immense hardware 
and manpower resources behind its services.  This doesn't scale 
for us.  However, there is a way out:

> * The slippy map should be based off planet, to maximise performance.

If we can make an easy to follow recipe for setting up a slippy 
map server and loading it with the latest weekly planet.osm dump, 
anybody can set up a server, tweak the software, and create their 
own experimental services.  The amount of traffic they draw will 
be independent of OSM's central hardware resources.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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