On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > On 16/10/12 16:40, Tom MacWright wrote: > >> > The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org >> <http://planet.openstreetmap.**org/ <http://planet.openstreetmap.org/>> >> I'm not sure where else we would send >> them? >> >>> While there are lots of other places to get things like regional >>> extracts they are unofficial third party sites so I don't think that we >>> should be referring people to them from the main site. >>> >> >> I think pointing people to jXAPI could work, or one thing. And, the >> whole 'unofficial third party sources' bit isn't that strong; >> planet.osm.org <http://planet.osm.org> points to third-party sources, >> and so does the wiki. >> > > Well when jxapi.osm.org is stable then maybe we would, though I'm not > entirely clear if this is really what it is designed for or how likely it > would be to stand lots of large area downloads. >
It was indeed designed to handle larger areas like this, but I think it might be more interesting to restart the thread about cached, tiled data again to make these large area queries faster.
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