[OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

[Paul Norman]

On 5/17/2015 3:14 PM, Daniel Koć wrote:
>> I have no idea how you'd apply P2P to map style design. It sounds like
>> you; ve heard of a great technology, and want to apply it to every
>> problem without fully understanding the technology and/or the problem.
>
> I even used it once on OSM - it was called Tiles at home.
Tiles at home was not a P2P map style, it was kept in SVN and used a 
distributed rendering system. Distributed rendering is still used, 
primarily by larger scale operations. Craigslist distributes their 
pre-rendering workload among a large number of machines, and I believe 
MapBox did the same when they were pre-rendering.

I am not certain of the details after this long, but I don't think the 
Tiles at home rendering was P2P either - simply distributed.