[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] The OSM Applet

[Nick Hill]

Nick Black wrote:
> 
> I have been taking a look at the OSM Applet code, and at peoples
> criticisms of it. Aside from the speed issues that are largely caused
> by tile rendering GPX points onto Landsat tiles, other criticisms
> point to the UI, so I have taken the JOSM icons and stuck them onto a
> very hacky mock up.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear what people think about this - especially
> some of the newcommers to OSM who have been active on the list
> recently.

Hi Nick

I feel the new icons would help make the applet more usable.

With regard to slowness of tile serving, a scheduling system at the server as 
discussed for slippy tiles could completely free all slowness issues. Better 
still, have the gps point data cached at the server and tile-invalidated then 
have the client program mark the gps points on the landsat tiles. This could be 
achieved without substantial increase in client memory footprint but with a 
small increase in CPU load whilst the tiles are loading.