-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gervase Markham wrote: | Milo van der Linden wrote: |> If the possibility would be built into the general map at |> www.openstreetmap.org to detect the browser language and show the render |> for that particular language, half the problems would be gone. | | One problem with this is that the tileserver would have to render, store | and serve multiple tiles for each location. That would increase the | amount of time it spent rendering and the amount of disk space required.
Storing is only needed at low zoom levels. At higher levels, it can render on demand - so it doesn't need to store tiles that never get viewed, and can purge the highest zoom tiles if it is short of space. Since rolling out mod_tile, it's had plenty of spare capacity. In many places, only one language will be available, or the default language + 1 other, so in theory we would only need to keep one tile for the default language and serve that for most languages. I guess we would query PostGIS to ask what languages are in the area, if the target language isn't there, we serve the default tile and link it as the specific language tile as well. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH4kqdz+aYVHdncI0RAooBAKDO9aDvvdJX+Nry/vLzDw9vaL6rAQCdG3TW y6E6iYK4blgKsA1+gp+n4Mk= =xzR8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
