Hello, with the recent appearance of tirex there are now at least two, with the python version of renderd 3, but probably more implementations of a rendering backend. All attempt to roughly do the same, i.e. take requests from a webserver or other program and render them. So the question is what is the future outlook for each and the relation between them? I.e. is tirex supposed to replace renderd and tile.osm.org will eventually switch? Or was tirex just something geofabrik threw together for a particular client and renderd should remain the "default"? Are they intended to solve the same problem and "compete for the same market" or does each have their own niche for which they are optimized for?
This is less of a question though regarding using renderd vs tirex but more of a question of where the future lies and thus for which to develop new features. It would be a shame and rather inefficient to put in effort to develop features for something that turns out to be a dead end and my concern is to "fracture" the not directly large pool of developers for renderd/tirex. Yes, sometimes competition can be a good thing and thanks to it all being opensource one can fork and merge at will, but I would be interested to hear how others involved see the situation and help potential contributors to make a informed decision to which project best to contribute to. Kai _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
