[OSM-talk] Bounding box

[David Sheldon]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:35:50PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> One possible solution I could imagine would be splitting download and  
> upload servers. Uploads - which will always be only a small  
> percentage of downloads - must go the the central server, but  
> downloads can be served from any number of servers running a copy.  
> These copies can be kept current by built-in database replication  
> techniques, or simply by batch-updating them with a hourly diff file  
> (this would also enable us to build mirrors distributed all over the  
> world). Just one idea, but *something* has to be done...

An hourly diff wouldn't really work. It would lead to people's JOSM
downloads being significantly different from the server's view of it. 

Maybe we need a download server for people using the data, which can be
lagged like that, and one for people editing it, which cant. Better
options might be possible by thinking about filtering, or caching
clients.

David
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