On 23 July 2013 15:08, David Clark <dbcl...@fastmail.com.au> wrote: > Sorry I don't really understand this, how will this affect me and what I > see? >
Hopefully you shouldn't see any difference. :-) It is a large behind the scenes change on how we produce the default map tiles (view) for OpenStreetMap.org The old map stylesheet was a mass of difficult to understand XML. The new map stylesheet is completely re-written in a much cleaner CartoCSS syntax. Easier to maintain and improve, it is also easier to customise it for other projects. Andy Allan's talk explains it better than I could to: http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68093876 We have also changed the server infrastructure used for rendering the map tiles. The old server was becoming very complicated to maintain and administer due to the many layers of complexity, code, and undocumented hacks built up over time. The new server is setup using an automated "devops" system (opscode chef). The chef cookbook we wrote is here: http://git.openstreetmap.org/chef.git/tree/HEAD:/cookbooks/tile Regards Grant _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au