[OSM-talk] handover of tile.openstreetmap.org

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 20:32 schrieb Jon Burgess:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:11 -0600, SteveC wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > at the oxford dev day jburgess (whos already done a bunch of things
> > with mapnik and osm) and I talked a bit about tile and he was willing
> > to take it over. mapnik generation on tile.openstreetmap.org is now
> > controlled by jburgess who has many ideas (and more importantly the
> > time) for speeding / improving things. So please direct bugs,
> > features and comments about all this to him. Thanks Jon!
> >
> > nick - jon has an account on tile I created (jburgess) and AFAIK has
> > the permissions needed to do stuff. Only thing may be a sudo to
> > restart apache at some point.
> >
> > have fun,
> >
> > SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
> Thanks Steve.
>
> Please let me know if you've got any suggested improvements.
>
> I'm already aware of the request to "get stuff rendered as soon as it is
> uploaded to the DB". Maybe this is something we'll achieve one day --
> but there are many things which would need to be changed in the current
> setup and we are not likely to achieve it in the near future.
>
> On my todo list at the moment I've got:
>
> - Fix up the display at low zoom which shows bad tiles off the side of
> the map.
>
> - Try implementing real-time re-rendering of the latest planet.osm dump.
> I have a script which does this on my home machine but it is unclear if
> this will scale up to work successfully with all the users of tile.
>
> 	Jon
>

Hmm....I must miss something, but I have the impression that re-rendering is 
*not* working at all at the moment. At least (2151 1413) is in the queue 
since many days. First I thought that has something todo with the 0.4 API 
change, but that seems to be done now (?).

Many thanks,
Rainer
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