[WikiEN-l] new Google Earth tie-in (!!)

[Thomas Dalton]

> We (and they) are in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation.  It's
> good that they're working from their own stashed copy instead of
> hitting us live, because I doubt our servers could handle their
> users' load.  But of course on the other hand it's supremely
> annoying that they're working from their own stashed copy,
> because (as you note and I emphatically agree) our lovely
> instantaneous wiki-quick edit-save-test loop is broken.

Why can't we have the best of both worlds? They get the co-ordinates
from the database dumps, but when a user clicks on the globe icon they
get the live page. We should be able to handle the load if our servers
are only hit when a user actually tries to read the page.