-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jo wrote: | Robert (Jamie) Munro schreef: |> |> When I look at the USA, I want interstates to be blue. When an American |> looks at the UK, they want to see motorways to be a colour other than |> blue, because then they will understand instinctively what kind of road |> it is. This should be one of the major benefits of OSM over other maps. |> |> When someone from a USA IP address opens the map, they should see the |> USA style tiles by default, but have the UK tiles on the layer switcher. |> | That would indeed make a lot of sense. Otherwise you will get odd | results of roads changing style near the borders. So a separate tile | server for the US is called for. Probably one for France as well with | styles that look like Michelin's maps and maybe one for Germany (Are | Germans used to Kummerley und Frey?)
Hopefully we won't need a separate tileserver for each rendering style - 1 server should be able to render more than one style at a time at different URLs. I am led to believe that mod_tile cannot currently render more than one style of tiles on a single apache installation - I don't know what tilecache is capable of. It would be more efficient to spread the load across multiple servers by odd/even tile numbers, or possibly by odd/even zoom levels. It is likely that a USA tileserver will be busy at different times from a UK or Japan tile server, and it would be useful if they could share the rendering loads between each at their own peak times. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFICejwz+aYVHdncI0RAvVeAKC1NMcAwG4DMJdvqL9LBs6VY73WNQCg5lmp WdydYFJvvcW6wdCwMUY2+r0= =NUEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
