Hi, Before relying on any third-party resources I'm experimenting with expanding Freemap (www.free-map.org.uk)'s coverage to the whole of England (will probably be Wales too next week) on my own server.
This is now live. It does mean that first time a given map tile is rendered (map tiles are GeoJSON-like and rendered by kothic-js, http://kothic.org) it will be _slow_ - perhaps 30+ seconds. I will try and optimise the backend sql queries by examining the native kothic python server-side code. However, the data is then cached meaning that next time you visit the area it will be much faster. Freemap's web services (see http://www.free-map.org.uk/0.6/about.html#developer) do not seem to be impacted so strongly (in terms of a slowdown) as the renderer suggesting the rate determining step is somewhere in the rendering process. However I suspect both the renderer and web services will be very slow in London due to sheer volume of data. But TBH both the site and web services are more aimed at countryside use so I'm not too fussed by that. Nick
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