[Xastir] Announcing tile support for OSM

[Jerry Dunmire]

Tiling for other services should be straight forward. I'll add it to
the list (do we have a better list than my poor memory?).

I hope someone else can help with the DB stuff.

...jerry

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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