OSM Australia, Have you noticed faster tiles this week? Australia now has a map caching server located in Brisbane. The server is used to speed up the standard tile.osm.org "Mapnik" map style. Browsing the map on http://www.openstreetmap.org/ should now be more responsive. This new server, named 'bunyip', first started providing tiles on Tuesday.
We thank Kris Amy ( https://twitter.com/krisamy ) for providing the server and hosting. Thank you, Kris! If anyone experiences any issues or hiccups, please let me know. Technical: Server specs are here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/bunyip OpenStreetMap tile servers use GeoDNS (PowerDNS with Geo backend) to locate the closest tile server. The DNS regions / cache-server can be viewed here: http://dns.openstreetmap.org/tile.openstreetmap.org.html To check which server you are being directed to use the command: nslookup tile.openstreetmap.org or dig tile.openstreetmap.org Regards Grant Part of OSM sysadmin team _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
