Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Grant Slater > >> Yes, the OSM Foundation is badly in need of extra money (or highend >> hardware) to fund the next round of server hardware upgrades. In most >> cases we are already close to server capacity. >> >> We've also started looking for an additional hosting provider. > > Has the option of collaboration with other free projects been explored > in this regard? One obvious option would be collaboration with > Wikimedia which has a much larger server cluster that could solve at > least some of the hosting problems for isolated parts of OSM. Like > tile serving.
No, something like that never occurred to us. If it had, we might have done something like running an experiment in getting a related project to cache our tiles for us. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
