There are also a lot of other places nearby also tagged place=town (Hartenbos, Groot Brak, Tergniet etc.) which we should maybe tag place=village instead. -- Glen On Nov 4, 2013 2:23 PM, "Norman Woodward" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Grant > > I did not realise it took so long. I think it's be over a week since I > added the town name for Mossel Bay. After your refresh I am still > getting some of the zoomed out tiles not having the name. I presume it > will still take a awhile for the tiles to be propagated. > I see you added the population (60,000). Where does one get that type of > info? I would also like to add the sagns_id as well. > > Norman > > On 2013/11/04 01:30 PM, Grant Slater wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 4 November 2013 11:16, Dawid Loubser <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > __ > > That's funny Grant - I always thought that the zoomed-out tiles > > updated first, and that it took ages for the detailed tiles to > > update :-) > > I'm sure it was that way a couple of years ago - has the processing > > order changed? Or am I mistaken? > > > > > > Yes it has changed. The rendering stack (and caching layers) now try to > > keep the zoomed-in (high-zoom) current and caches the zoomed out for > > much longer. > > The tile.openstreetmap.org <http://tile.openstreetmap.org> rendering + > > serving is a challenge... >5000 tiles per second (> 450Mbit/s) at peak. > > A dynamic pool of 11 caches servers servers and 2 rendering servers. It > > has been fun to design. > > > > But don't be scared off from trying to render your own OSM South Africa > > map. Even a smallish PC can handle it. http://switch2osm.org/ has a > > guide and there are people in #osm-dev on http://irc.osm.org always > > ready to help. > > > > Regards > > Grant > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ZA mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > >
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