[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-list at deelkar.net
Mon Jun 30 01:37:06 BST 2008


Florian Lohoff schrieb:

> Just as a coincidence - Slashdot is running a story about the Facebook
> photo storage. Basically they want to do the same as this. Storing all
> the photos in large chunks with external index. They even encode the
> start and length of the file to serve within the url (and some security
> measures).
> 
> http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#2qi3k8eicrfgkv
> 
> So - if they start serving 450TByte with 6.5 Billion photos like this 
> it cant be all so wrong.

However they have a completely different update profile. OTOH I think 
this can work quite well even for us.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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