[Xastir] Announcing tile support for OSM

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote:

> Thanks, Tom. I thought that libcurl should have something like, but I
> hadn't found it
> yet. Given the command line argument you've provided it should be pretty easy to
> figure out now.

Something else to think about after you've thunked yourself out on
OSM tiles:  Implementing tiling for other services which support it,
like Terraserver.  We already have a problem with Terraserver
similar to the one you hit with OSM for larger screens.  If we had
tiling/caching there things would be better.

Add to the bottom of your todo list?  Pretty please?

Yet another:  Re-implement caching w/o the use of Berkeley DB.  It's
caused us a lot of problems in the past and is probably overkill for
what we need anyway.  This isn't necessarily directed at you Jerry,
but at anyone looking for a good short-term project that would
benefit Xastir as a whole.

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