Hi! Not long ago I set up a server to participate in the ti...@home project. I Twittered it and the following disuscussion took place:
---- Me: I have just installed the ti...@home client on my server - nice to be able to contribute some CPU cycles to the OpenStreetMap project. Shaun McDonald: um do you know that one machine can deal with the rendering of the whole world wilst t...@h needs lots of machines and bandwidth? Me: Yes, but until that machine is up and running, we need to keep the rendering queue down... Are you offering such a machine for OSM? Shaun McDonald: Take a look at the default map on the osm.org website, it is already is using the diffs, up to 10 minute delay depending on load Ref http://twitter.com/hansfn/statuses/4175284365 http://twitter.com/smsm1/statuses/4314776666 http://twitter.com/hansfn/statuses/4325706671 http://twitter.com/smsm1/statuses/4326127392 ---- OK, I did some testing and Shaun (who is a "Junior Developer" at CloudMade) was right - the map was indeed updated in 10 minutes or less. (It works perfectly most of the time.) So what exactly are we contributing to when we participate in the ti...@home project? Regards, Hans PS! http://www.informationfreeway.org/ says that Mapnik is updated weekly. Is that still correct? _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
