[OSM-talk] Osmarender 3.0

[Nick Hill]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Incidentally would there be scope for a browser-based (AJAX/XSLT) "osmarender 
> browser"? i.e. user searches for location by place name or lat/lon, and gets 
> an osmarender map of their area. Then, by navigating using the arrow keys 
> (slippy-style map would probably be too slow for SVG, at a guess) they can 
> move around.
> 
> Or would this hit the API too much?

I think that would be a great idea. There is no reason why the OSM data 
itself couldn't be cached. We'd need to somehow organise the data into 
discrete tiles so that two people looking in approximately the same area 
will fetch the same tiles of OSM data from the cache.

OSM data can be cached just as well as png or SVG.