Hi all,
First of all, I want to say that WMS sucks. The 100-page spec sucks, the efficiency sucks. That said, I just committed to SVN a set of hacks I've come to call "OSM WMS". Why? Long story short, this will allow me to promote OSM to GIS people. Or, as FakeSteveC would say, Arctards. However, the current implementation has the potential of pounding the API down to its knees (no caching of any kind). In fact, I think it has more bugs than features. So, I'd like to know if you think it would be a good idea to do load balancing between several OSMXAPI servers. (Yes, I know the best solution is to set up a local mirror of the database given a planet dump, and get the data from there. I just wanted to make something very simple to set up.) Also, would it be a good idea to call OSMXAPI with the whole earth as a BBOX and try to render the whole coastline? Any ideas on how an OSM WMS would behave on such large requests? Cheers, -- ---------------------------------- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
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