Agreed - there is nothing that one would consider a "town" between the
towns in Mossel Bay and George. 
Good catch!

Dawid

Op Ma, 2013-11-04 om 16:20 +0200 skryf Glen Wilson:

> 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
>         >
>         >
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