[OSM-talk] [Tilesathome] tiles at home (was: mapnik rendering)

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

OJ W wrote:
> So now tiles at home can be stopped?

Are you mad? Hundreds of OSMers would freeze to death if it weren't for 
the comfortable warmth generated by their dual quad-core CPUs rendering 
SVG day-in, day-out!

(No, honestly, t at h has other qualities than just quickly rendering 
stuff. One, it provides a tile source which is not controlled by the OSM 
foundation - remember that OSMF very nearly cut off tile serving for all 
"non core" projects last year [1] in which case t at h would have been the 
remaining free source for all these projects. Plus, where else can 
people happily clutter the map with whatever icons they like without 
being restrained by earthly cartographic rules?)

Bye
Frederik

[1] 
http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/osmf_boardminutes_20080830.pdf, 
Item 3.