[OSM-talk] more OSM coming soon

[Thomas Wood]

2009/5/13 Ivo van den Maagdenberg <ivo.vdmaagdenberg at gmail.com>:
> Hi Folks,
>
> This is some sort of quality of service question. Half of all the tiles on
> http://www.openstreetmap.org render as 'more OSM coming soon'. I want to
> know if I am doing something wrong (Ubuntu 8.10 + firefox 3.0 + reasonable
> hardware)

The tiles display this in the case of network troubles where the
server isn't reachable, they're also displayed if the tile hasn't yet
been rendered (and is present on the server's disk) and when it's not
possible to render on the fly. Otherwise, the tile is added to the
render queue and should be available at some point shortly in the
future.

> Showing OSM to a friend that has not seen 'the Map' does not give a good
> impression this way. A solution is to implement some sort of double
> buffering where the old tiles are kept for display until the new one has
> properly rendered? Well, that's maybe impossible, but it would improve the
> responsiveness of the http://www.openstreetmap.org at the moment.

I believe this is already the case.

> I am not 100% sure if this list is the most appropriate place to post and
> apolgise for hogging the wrong list with my concerns.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ivom
>
>
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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)