On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Mikel Maron<mikel_ma...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> The rest are now up at http://cassini.toolserver.org/tile-browse/ > > These are great!! > (though I think we may just have crashed your renderd with loads of > requests)
That was part of the plan:) Let's see how it does with added caching though. > I realize this is just a proof of concept, but is this generally your plan > right now, > to generate tile sets for every language, with caching? Yes but on-demand as they're added to pages on Wikimedia projects with the Slippy Map extension. We're not aiming for having a general purpose google-maps-alike in 279 languages but rather just a way for users to embed maps into articles in their language. Those articles will each have their own peephole view of the planet so hopefully we won't have to generate a huge amount of static maps / tiles for each language. > Since the underlying geometries are the same for all tiles, and only the > text changes, > one thought has been to decouple these into different tile sets (geoms and > various localised text tiles), > which are then combined on the server before pushing out, or on the client > in OL. Yeah a basemap + text would be neat. But I couldn't find a way to do it so I thought I'd try the brute-force way first and see how it works. > This would reduce space requirements, and load on the database. > Not sure how much more cost it is to overlay the text on geom tiles, on the > server, > but there are possibly clever ways to make this efficient. > > There's a need for this on osm.org itself. If an efficient way to localise > tiles can be found > through your work on wikipedia, it's all very good! _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk