On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Igor Podolskiy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Parveen, Hello Sir > absolutely. I have successfully run tile servers (in fact, complete OSM > clones with rails port and all) on what is listed there as "bare minimum". > Of course, that was for a small region, and with heavily filtered data (only > boundaries, major roads, and some custom data). That way, I was able to > rerender all tiles every 10 minutes.
> Parveen, I have a feeling that the main use case you are considering is to > serve a Slippy Map-like website for the whole world as an audience. It will be like a software package by using which user will be easily able to set up his Customised OSM tile server. > There is nothing wrong with that, of course. On the other hand, the > application also > targets "Companies". I work at a "Company" - we set up our own tile servers > with a custom style for a small region from time to time, but they are for > our internal use only, because we need them for one of our projects (we are > public transportation consultants). I suspect this is a much more common use > case - albeit much less visible, obviously - than providing a slippy map for > a broad audience. > > What counts here is to be able to set up the server (1) fast and (2) on > cheap hardware or VMs, and (3) and to be able to more or less quickly cut > out what you need based on the region and the tags. Tag-based filtering may > be out of scope of your project, but region extraction should be there. Yes we will include > Also, your requirements don't list processor requirements. In my experience, > many tasks involved in rendering and filtering are CPU-bound, so number of > cores/processor class is a thing to consider for me, too. I don't have any exact requirement list, So can you please provide if you have any or let me know If there is any wiki page for this. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
