Hello, I've been reading this mailing list archives since I started to contribute to Tiles @ Home, and now I'm reading this mail saying that osmarender is being phased out.
First of all, a big thanks to all the developers whose contribution made Tiles @ Home possible. This mail explains a lot to a new contributer like me. I was thinking from the beginning that my contributions were the tiles I see every day in OSM, but no, they were part of another layer, the Mapnik. Well, with all the explanations I've read in this mail I think that T@H v2.0 should be something that really could help OSM, like T@H helped in the beginning of OSM. And that help, in my opinion, pass by take some load from the OSM servers. I think that there are lots of OSM users, like me, that download lots of tiles to use in the cache of mobile devices. I use OSMtracker to map the places I pass, and don't want to pay for a 3G connection to have the tiles updated every day, so I use TileManager from OSMtracker to update and download tiles. The problem is that every time I update my cached tiles I'm putting some load in the servers, instead I could being rendering them AT HOME. So, the T@H v2.0 should be an application to download the raw actualized data from a central server and render it in tiles to use AT HOME, in a easy way. I've already stopped my T@H virtual machine :( _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
