On 2010-09-21, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I often defend TaH when people talk bad about it. There was a time then > TaH was cutting-edge, where it would deliver new renderings in as little > as 15 minutes whereas the Mapnik server would take 15 days or more. TaH > really raised the bar back then, and without TaH we might still be > stuck in a setting where you'd have to wait for days or weeks to see > your mapping. > > So TaH definitely has a place of honour in the history of OSM and nobody > can take that away. But I don't think that it still is very useful today.
Thanks for defending us and I agree with you fully. t...@h helped to raise the bar and to provide an independent infrastructure to deliver tiles. And it also served/serves as a nice experimental place to play with styles. Now with toolserver.org, geofabrik stuff and cloudmade style editors that task has become less important though. I think selectable layers are still not sufficiently covered elsewhere so we could provide that. But I love the contour maps and I would be happy if we could get our clients to render that on a regular basis. All it takes is someone to assemble the client side stuff to produce these maps and I guess that a mapnik installation per client can be ruled out. Any takers or people with ideas? I am willing to help out on the server side as much as I can, but I can't take on the client side as well. Sebastian
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