Hi all, I've been rolling a LINUX live-CD for a few years now to deliver the software which I'm teaching at Uni (building simulations).
Since I've also been mapping and tiling for a good few months now, it occurred to me that the tah client might as well be on this CD. This would allow Windows people to run the client over the weekend or in the evenings on their computers at work or college. This, coincidentally, is also when the OSM server is most busy. Win-win situation for everybody. I've started hacking together a little front-end to put on the CD-ROM. It's nothing fancy, just a longish BASH script with some zenity pop-up windows. I have a few questions which I'm sure this list will be able to answer: a) MaxTilesetComplexity: Is there any problem at all with leaving it set to zero? b) minimum specs: The more RAM, the better. Is there a mimimum amount of RAM where one you say "Thank you but no"? c) I'm changing the following options when creating the config file: ....| sed "/Fork=/ s/0/1/" \ | sed "/AutoResetStopfile=/ s/0/1/" \ | sed "/Verbose=/ s/6/3/" ... Any other suggestions? d) To test if the network is up, I intend to ping tah.openstreetmap.org. This also tells me if the server is running. Would another box be more appropriate? e) What would be the preferred way of testing username/password without doing anything else? I looked at tilesGen.pl, but there is no option for this. f) Is there a test account which I could use for testing without messing anything up? The TaH server should recover from killed requests, but I'd be happier if you knew that I could not possibly do any harm while cobbling the script together. g) What is the preferred way of killing (not stopping) the client, in case the user can't/won't wait a few minutes? h) As a little add-on gizmo, would I be able to pull user stats from the server, e.g. rendered tiles, uploaded kB etc. other than through screen-scraping http://server.tah.openstreetmap.org/User/show/ Many thanks Blumpsy _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
