2008/6/25 Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > > First of all, I want to say that WMS sucks. The 100-page spec sucks, the > efficiency sucks. > > > That said, I just committed to SVN a set of hacks I've come to call "OSM > WMS". > > Why? Long story short, this will allow me to promote OSM to GIS people. Or, > as > FakeSteveC would say, Arctards. > > However, the current implementation has the potential of pounding the API > down > to its knees (no caching of any kind). In fact, I think it has more bugs > than > features. > > So, I'd like to know if you think it would be a good idea to do load > balancing > between several OSMXAPI servers. >
This is probably a good idea. Do you have any servers in mind? > > (Yes, I know the best solution is to set up a local mirror of the database > given a planet dump, and get the data from there. I just wanted to make > something very simple to set up.) > > Also, would it be a good idea to call OSMXAPI with the whole earth as a > BBOX > and try to render the whole coastline? Any ideas on how an OSM WMS would > behave on such large requests? > > > Cheers, > -- > ---------------------------------- > Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective. > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > >
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