some thoughts on the export tab yes, it's wonderful and it helps starving babies in africa
but do we really have the resources to serve arbitrary data to people? I've noticed the tile server taking a nose dive (and api calls actuall) in speed recently and I thought it was the bandwidth from various locations. But, it may be that the export magic is partially happening on that box? Anecdotally I've heard of a few people hammering the export tab for data. This is exactly why we don't ship WMS and WFS. It's why tiles are good and limited bounding box requests from the map call are good. We will never satisfy the arbitrary data requests for the export tab or WMS etc as there will always be more wanted. Adding an arbitrary output format just adds another arbitrary format on to it, making it more computationally intensive. Really, the existing boxes should be throwing out as many tiles and API calls as possible. We should buy a new box for export and it shouldn't be a priority in terms of memory, disk, uptime etc. Best Steve _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
