SteveC wrote: > Thats not the point, its not about x number of CPU seconds per request > - its that the statistics are fundamentally different for, say, > running a WMS and running a tile server. One scales, one doesn't.
But IMHO the export tab isn't really like running a WMS. A WMS is basically an API - it's typically accessed programmatically, so someone writes and distributes a client which hammers it and hey presto you have a server load problem. The export tab isn't an API, it's a human-facing service, so the load scales reasonably predictably in proportion to userbase/project visibility. We may of course have a problem one day if someone tries to treat it as an API, but as Tom says the stats don't suggest that's happening now, and blocking repeated requests from the same IP would be pretty trivial. Anyway, whatever. I did a bit of wiki gardening earlier to group the rest of the exporty type stuff on one page - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ index.php/Export - which, bearing in mind Andy A's comment about prebuilt Garmin downloads earlier, might make a useful 'Other formats...' link at the bottom of the export tab. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
