[OSM-talk] What to display on the slippy maps - another approach

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Fri Feb 16 13:13:08 GMT 2007


> > The overlaid nodes could be generated live from the database, but more
> > likely could sit cached alongside the tile cache perhaps referenced
> > relative
> > to their containing tile rather than by lat/long for efficient
> > display.
> >
> I'd probably go with a database, but indexed with a morton index to
> make it peedy.

I'm sure it would be *a* database, but I was thinking probably not *the*
main live osm database, but one which corresponds in time to the tile
underlaying the nodes.

David





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