[OSM-dev] [Nominatim] Import hangs inside virtualized host

2012-02-12 Thread fatzopilot
Hi, hope this is the right/best place to ask. I am trying to import the mapquest npi data inside a virtualized environment and it gets stuck all the time after a while. Latest svn version tried is 27508 and last time it got stuck after 38765(k) features. I don't think the problem is

Re: [OSM-dev] [Tilesathome] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:44:47 -0500, Jeremy Adams mile...@king-nerd.com wrote: Also thanks to the legions of renderers, client developers, and style tweakers, such as Bob Kare, Petschge, Dirk Lüder-Kreie, the ROMA and TRAPI developers, and the people involved in running the read-only mirror

Re: [OSM-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread 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 si...@poole.ch 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

Re: [OSM-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread Simon Poole
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 si...@poole.ch mailto:si...@poole.ch wrote: Am 06.02.2012

Re: [OSM-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread Mike Dupont
Well my idea was that people could render on the fly and if they like share those rendered tiles, because those users who willing to donate will help others. Of course there is an issue how to manage the uploads and distribution. Of course your point of why to store tiles at all is valid, but lets

Re: [OSM-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 06.02.2012 09:54, schrieb Sven Geggus: To be serious, I consider distributed rendering broken by design. I agree. Here is why: Distributed computing is usually a good idea when computing takes more time than data transmission. Otherwise it just does not make sense to transmit the data

[OSM-dev] Need advice on my software stack: How to display a small/medium mapping project in OpenLayers?

2012-02-12 Thread Morten Olsen Lysgaard
Hi, I'm doing a project on open aviation data. I am using a custom modified rails port for this. Until now I've shown the map this way: * A Google physical as a basemap that shows terrain, borders etc. * My own WFS layer above that shows aerodromes, runways, airspaces, etc. * Both these layers

Re: [OSM-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
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

[OSM-dev] Toronto Hack Weekend

2012-02-12 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, The Toronto Hack Weekend[1] is shaping up nicely for mid-March. You can see that some have registered already on the wiki page. I have verbal confirmation from three others who are each flying in for the event. There will certainly be more. It is critically important to the event

Re: [OSM-dev] Toronto Hack Weekend

2012-02-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: If you find Toronto to be too far from the US East Coast for your preference or too far in the future, remember that the DC Hack Weekend (Arlington VA) is this weekend.  Don't miss it. By this, Richard means this

Re: [OSM-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT: T@H server will go away end of February

2012-02-12 Thread Mike Dupont
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

Re: [josm-dev] Creating a user-friendly changelog for tested release

2012-02-12 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Simon Legner wrote: Do you think we can merge both lists, at least internally? We'd have one wiki page ChangelogSource and each entry is marked either for changelog or for startup note or for both. This would remove redundancy and make live easier for the translators.