[OSM-talk] Static osmarender tile generation

[David Sheldon]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:19:52PM +0100, Nick Burch wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, David Earl wrote:
> > Of course, it would be rather large if the whole world were attempted,

> As for the "rendering the whole world" thing, I think David Sheldon had a 
> plan for rendering all the UK main roads on EC2 in a few hours every 
> month, shifting the rendered tiles off somewhere else once built. The only 
> trouble with using that sort of approach for these tiles is the large 
> bandwidth charges shifting the large number of tiles off EC2 to be hosted.

If I find any time for this project, it will start with a feasability
study of the processor and bandwidth/storage demands. It is really at
the drawing board stages at the moment, so I don't want to stop other
poeple thinking about how this could be made to work.

David - currently hating IE's different event model.

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