One of the main services of [EMAIL PROTECTED], namely being a means of quick response to map modifications is being lost just for those tiles that are a little bit more complex then the average. As long as tiles are being returned to the server (by low resource clients) for complexity reasons, after 1-2 hours of fruitless processing and a client crash, there is still work to do. Currently the NL tileserver running Mapnik, often provides a quicker update (max 48h) as [EMAIL PROTECTED] for NL tiles.
I have requested several times for modification of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] starting point to level 13. The render jobs will be smaller, allowing more clients to participate successfully. In my opinion it is very frustrating that in the morning the [EMAIL PROTECTED] process was stopped due to too many heap sections or a inkscape memory problem. Spill of energy, effort and computer time. Level 13 will allow most [EMAIL PROTECTED] clients to run complex tiles much faster, creating a fast turnaround time. Stitching four captionless tiles 13 will create a level 12 tile. The downside is that for a given area 4x more requests are needed, but each upload will contain 4 x less tiles. Is this a too big change of strategy ? Will the level 12 results be too bad of quality ? Does the [EMAIL PROTECTED] community think this is not relevant (yet) ? Is there any major reason that I overlooked ? Will inkscape be replaced soon, making this unnecessary (like ORP)? Gert -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Frederik Ramm Verzonden: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:50 AM Aan: Sebastian Spaeth CC: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [Tilesathome] Proposal: New [EMAIL PROTECTED] Server structure Hi, >> I always perceive [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the more haphazard hobbyist layer. >> Look >> at our current map at zoom level 2 and try not to run away crying. >> Makes one think that a good distributed server concept is not the >> No 1 on the list of things we'd need ;-) > > Agreed, extreme lowzoom is not pretty. I didn't even want to suggest that someone should go fix it (although obviously it is great if it can be fixed) - if the price for the flexibity we have with [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the occasional botched map, then I don't think that's a big problem. I just wanted to put the "swiss timepiece engineering" being suggested for the server in contrast with the usual attitude in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome
