Hello everyone, With an increasing interest in renderers for walking and hiking, and wanting to keep to the spirit of opencyclemap.org, openpistemap.org and opensantamap.org, I plan to re-launch Freemap as OpenFootMap, a name which will also hopefully make the link with OSM much more explicit.
Consequently I have registered openfootmap.org, which I also want to try and give a more international feel than Freemap (though it will likely be restricted to England in the first instance, as I don't have access to a huge server....) Nonetheless I'd like to make the site the first port of call for collecting ideas for "OSM for walkers", and invite suggestions for styling, map features to show, icons, additional features, and so on. I'd also like to get a bit of advice on hosting. Currently I am using a Bytemark VM for Freemap, but I'm wondering whether something like the Business package from uk2.net would give more server power, at the expense of root access. Because client processing power is very much less expensive, financially, than the server end, I plan to make openfootmap.org much more lightweight on the server side than Freemap, by doing rendering at home, using the Mapnik OSM plugin, and simply serve static tiles from the server, much like ti...@home on the osmarender side. Hopefully if there is interest, individual contributors could sign up to a ti...@home like scheme and render their area on their own home machines. Consequently all I really need on the server side is basic PHP and MySQL provision and an SSH shell. So would people recommend sticking with bytemark or transferring to something like uk2? Thanks, Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
