On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> On 09/23/2011 12:09 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote:
>> The idea of mergeable, stand-alone data tiles is promising and I believe
>> that these could prove very useful e.g. in the context of client-side
>> rendering.
>
> Another potential use case is on-demand download of almost arbitrary areas;
> if, instead of generating tons of country extracts each night, I could just
> generate lots of little boxes that would be stitched together on the fly for
> anyone who wants to download, say, germany.osm.pbf, that would be quite an
> advantage. It would of course require a fast, streaming way of combining the
> blocks.
MirrorOSM does this on the client side via osm2pgsql, but it's very much the
same idea:
http://tilestache.org/doc/TileStache.Goodies.Providers.MirrorOSM.html
-mike.
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