I would like to point out this proposal from agron, a fellow flossk member : http://www.flossk.org/en/blog/project-proposal-map-tile-distribution-and-master-directory-map-tile-distributors
It shows that tiles are still very interesting for end users. Also the point is that many people have small geographic needs, it would be fine to have a small host that only hosts one city if that server is in a directory mike On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) < [email protected]> wrote: > That would make one large distributed tile server, but the issue is > getting inbound connections to those T@H users running behind firewalls. > They can connect OUT to get work and again to push the results out to a > central server, but anyone that needs a tile would a) have to know who has > it (central server index hit most likely), and b) get a connection INTO the > renderer that has the tile. > > Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Watching for a distributed tile server solution > > > On 2/12/2012 4:09 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > > > Possible? Sure. Good use of resources? Probably not. > > Simon > > Am 12.02.2012 10:00, schrieb Mike Dupont: > > Would it not be possible to have clients render tiles and then share them? > mike > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 06.02.2012 10:29, schrieb Matthias Meißer: >> >> Am 06.02.2012 09:54, schrieb Sven Geggus: >>> >> .... rambling about doing more of the same old stuff deleted .... >> >> >> If we want to do anything at all "officially" as a replacement, I would >> cast my vote clearly in favour of a data tile service with client side >> rendering. >> >> Simon >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing > [email protected]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
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