[Xastir] Washington DC Maps

[Craig Anderson]

Just a curious question, where is the server we are using?  Are we going all the way to London for these maps?  Or are there more servers in a load-balancing arrangement?

Would it be useful to have another server?

Thanks,
Craig
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On Jun 13, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Mark Esswein wrote:
> 
>> I notice that there is an empty square over Andrews AFB.  The Open
>> Street Map web maps all show it, but apparently the static map does not.
>> Perhaps when tiling is enabled, this won't happen?
> 
> Your messages are not making it to the list.  Just to the two list
> admins.
> 
> As I understand it we're using one server somewhere that has the OSM
> maps installed and it's generating the images for us when we make
> the map request.  If it is missing some tiles or they've otherwised
> tweaked the server software to not produce a certain area, we won't
> see that in our images on Xastir.  We see the same thing with the MS
> Terraserver where it's missing a tile here and there.
> 
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