[Xastir] Free map access (was: Compression algorithm problem with DRGs)

[Brian D Heaton]

Jeff,

	If links to web pages are provided then the site hosting the web page
has to take the brunt of all the downloads.  At something like 50MB on
an ISPs included web-space it takes a lot of such accounts to make a
whole state available.

	A better idea would be to do something with bittorrents or using the
Konspire2 framework.  By using P2P distribtion methods we can spread the
load of getting the maps out there.  Of the two I like Konspire2 the
best.

http://konspire.sourceforge.net/konspire2b/


	Take a look tonight and let me know what you think.  If there is a
general consensus that Konspire is the way to go I'll do up a draft set
of channels and start sending out my DRG collection on Sunday
afternoon.  Its really easy to get running, and we can create all the
channels we want.

	For that matter would could always make batches of the files available
via the Gnutella network.  It would be a good way to put it to legal
use. <G>

				73/N5VFF


On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:00, Jeff Barlow wrote:
> "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>  wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps if we had enough people volunteer to support one or two
> >state's worth, we could put up a reference page that would point
> >people to the download sites of interest.
> 
> That would be pretty much ideal. If someone were to come up with a
> boiler plate web page, where each volunteer just had to fill in the
> state name and such like, this could even be uniform and easy to use.
> 
> I just moved from southern California to Bend, Oregon. Most of my stuff
> is still in boxes. I better not volunteer to do much till I get a little
> more organized. My interest is mostly Oregon maps, of course. (Feeling
> pretty lost here)
> 
> I am on cable here. I might have enough uplink bandwidth to make
> something like that work. I haven't tried running any kind of server
> here yet, though. My ISP might have ports blocked for all I know. I do
> plan to fool around with that one of these days. 
> 
> Jeff Barlow
> WB6CSV
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