that sounds interesting! I am also working on some similar things, using archive.org for hosting the data. instead of a database, I will put the indexes for the tile in the same s3 bucket and create global indexes as well as separate buckets. currently I am working on the global indexes that can be queried without a database server, just by the client. mike
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Michael Daines <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Michael Daines, and for this year's GSoC I proposed to create a > service to provide fast, up-to-date map data accessible by tile. Some example > uses are client-side rendering, editors, and client-side interactivity. My > plan is for the project to be available as both a publicly-accessible service > and as an application that's easy to set up and customize for yourself (even > on a small home server). > > The wiki page for my project is here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Data_Tile_Service > > I'm looking for feedback about a couple things, so if this seems like it > might be helpful for a project you're working on or want to work on, I'd like > to hear from you about what I've written about so far on the wiki page. > > - How would you use a data tile service? I've added some notes about the > requirements for a few use cases so far on the wiki page, but I'm hoping to > collect more ideas. > - What do you think about the tile format? > - What do you think about the "customizations" for data tiles that I've > mentioned on the wiki? These are mainly optimizations to reduce the size of > tiles, particularly at lower zoom levels. > - Would you like to set up a data tile service on your own server? Since this > is an important part of the project, I'm interested in finding testers. > > Another issue is what kind of tile sets will be made publicly available as > part of this project. I imagine the answer will become clearer as the project > progresses, but one possibility is a tile set with complete data at a single > high zoom level. A smaller goal my timeline mentions as a milestone is making > available a tile set with a single zoom level which includes all data for a > particular geographical area (possibly the SF bay area). > > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
