On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 05:52:26AM +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Chris, > This brings up another point, reliability of OpenLayers servers. > The OpenLayers tutorials encourage users to point to the Openlayers.js > from Metacarta.
This is a problem. We should fix this. MetaCarta does not have the resources to devote to ensuring any server is up. Even once we migrate to OSGeo infrastructure, we don't have any guarentees of uptime: the servers are run by volunteers, provided free of charge on the goodwill of other organizations, etc. Additionally, any service that uses the OpenLayers API live is going to suffer excessive load times compared to rolling their own, because the OpenLayers.js uses the 'full' build profile -- over 300kb now. It's fine for demos, and quick examples, but we need to change the docs to state explicitly that users should not be depending on openlayers.org to host the /api/ JS long term, unless/until such time as alternative resources which provide some SLA are available. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
