[OSM-talk] Anglia TV

[David Earl]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Robbins [mailto:ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 23 February 2007 18:32
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org; david at frankieandshadow.com
> Subject: re: [OSM-talk] Anglia TV
>
>
> >This item will be on the 6pm programme this evening (Friday) with a brief
> >news clip in the 13.50 local bulletin.
>
> Just watched it.  Really Good stuff!  I like the way the osmarender layer
> was used for an animated demonstration of your route.

Thank you. I liked the way they did that too. That was one of the reporter's
first ideas when they decided to do the story.

> Bit
> concerning that
> the last shot was of the Mapnik layer with a Large "more OSM coming soon"
> square over the middle of the country though.


I'm afraid that happens on more than half the occasions when I visit the map
at different zoom levels. I can rarely see the whole map properly. When I've
referred others to it they say the same thing - they give up because it
doesn't give them anything useful.

How about a different tile for 'server busy' from 'unmapped' ; and the cache
time out and no-cache for the bad tile is vital to improve this. Of course,
server load is an issue.

Wouldn't surprise me if it gets a lot of hits this evening after the item.

David