On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Matthias Julius wrote: >> If on the other hand a standard interface can be established, so that >> e.g. the server is faster when a "strip-xxx" request is done, but a >> non-stripped request can be delivered nevertheless (as default) I would >> say this could be a fine solution. > > The goal here is to make the database faster by limiting the amount of > data that is stored in there. So if a server only supports the > "strip-xxx" request and no regular request it can do no harm.
I do not know how databases work in detail nowadays, but I thought not the amount of data itself is the limiting factor but the way it is stored. So when storing is optimized for certain requests a speedup should possible even without removing any information. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
