Hi
During the last weeks a lot of things happened to the tile-toolserver
server. There's still progress going on but I'd like to give you a short
status update:
ptolemy now uses tirex instead of renderd
This change was done last weekend, mainly for performance reasons, but
it also enlarged the number of tools that are available to manage the
rendering server (batch render & co.) Comprehensive tutorials on how a
new style can be added to the tileserver are tbd.
ptolemy is now visible in the munin graphs
Some statistics of munin are now available at
<http://munin.toolserver.org/OSM/ptolemy/index.html> but there are still
some old in (renderd) as well as some missing (postgres) and some
corrupted (replication_delay2). I'm working on consolidating the list of
munin plugins and fixing the bugs.
fallback for default style
The default style which is visible by default on
<http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/> is now using a fallback routine
that makes the browser weitch to the
osm.org tiles when our toolserver
can't render the tiles quickly enough. At the moment there are lots of
places where we don't have any tiles yet on the disk. Those areas need
to be rendered completely out-of-nothing when a visitor first views that
area. This fallback will help in making the period until we have a
comprehensive set of pre-rendered tiles less painful for our visitors.
Peter