I might be wrong but I think the purpose of a tile server is to eliminate main server stress.
A tile server converts shape file data into pretty tiles, so all you need to do is download the raw data, not the images. Kd0whb > On Nov 16, 2015, at 12:36 PM, David Ranch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If the goal is to make tiles available for offline use, I don't understand > why creating a NEW tile server help us achieve the goal other than avoid > OpenStreetMap's abuse clause. > > To me, I would think that if we come up with an automated way to download > current OSM tiles *and* then allow individuals to be able to upload the > rendered tiles to another site for others to consume, that would be a good > first step. Kurt KC9LDHmentioned he downloaded 11GB worth of tiles from > Geofabrikbut it's unclear what that all really included. Was that a large > area with all zoom levels? In many respects, that Geofabrik download service > at http://download.geofabrik.de/ seems to be EXACTLY what I'm talking about. > The main differences is that we'd want everything rendered down to png files. > Next, if people can initially download initial tile archives and later, > other people could easily update and UPLOAD new tiles, I think this would be > a pretty slick solution for Xastir (maybe other APRS clients too). If > people agree with the thought process here, I think we first need to > understand what kind of storage capacity we're looking at here and then where > can it be stored . Could these tile archives be stored be the current xastir.org server? To minimize bandwidth issues, maybe downloads can be restricted to specific "trusted" Xastir accounts/passwords/whatever? > > Other ideas? > > --David > KI6ZHD > > > > >> On 11/16/2015 11:11 AM, Skyler F wrote: >> It looks like creating a tile server might be the way to go if one has >> enough memory / storage. >> >> Who has experience with this, and can point me in the right direction for >> setting it up, and then pointing xastir to my tile server? >> >> Skyler KD0WHB > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
