[OSM-talk] Run tilesAtHome client and only accept requests for a small bbox. Possible?

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Fri Mar 20 10:27:45 GMT 2009


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Yann Coupin wrote:
> Le 19 mars 09 à 21:00, Karl Newman a écrit :
> 
>> The main Mapnik layer on OSM.org is updated minutely now, I believe  
>> (maybe it's hourly).
>
> Last I heard it was hourly, and it didn't include the maximum zoom  
> level which can't be updated hourly because it's too resource  
> intensive, so that one is updated weekly.

Don't you mean minimum zoom level? AFAIK, the higher the zoom level, the
less resource intensive the operation because there less data to
consider. High zoom levels can render from PostGIS in real time.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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