[Tilesathome] Shift load from main API to ROMA

[spaetz]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:18:41PM +0200, Patrick Kilian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After a discussion on IRC with apmon and others, I created patches to
> make the T at h client prefer ROMA for requests which are not priority 1.
> That should lessen the load on the main API without losing the ability
> to get a fast rerender once you are finished with your edits. *g*
> 
> 
> The patches can be found at http://www.petschge.de/osm/reduceapiload/
> If the developers of the server like the patch I can commit the client
> side patch to svn.

I'm all for it. The less we bother the main API the better. Handing out the priority is trivial and will be done as soon as the client understands a new protocol version that includes the priority.

spaetz