On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com>wrote:
> Politely, hell no. > > Compare total hardware usage and cost of operating and coordinating > ti...@home* layer versus mapnik layer. Mapnik layer still operates > from 1 server! > > * t...@h got us here, but mapnik can carry up further. It would be > excellent to see the performance APIs which grew from t...@h growing more > useful, maybe towards a feature set like xapi? > Was going to suggest exactly that: a server to run data queries like that would be great. Something like what cloudmade does: generate weekly extracts of important regions or features. Important being discussed on the list and/or voted on by the community. Perhaps someone wants a shapefile with all the motorways in Western Europe or a MySQL dump of all amenity=* POI for the state of Alaska. Make it easier to get access (in OSM and more popular formats) to our data.
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