#4904 closed enhancement (wontfix)
ability to share OSM tile cache with FoxtrotGPS
| Reported by: | Owned by: | team | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Core imagery | Version: | |
| Keywords: | tile cache tangogps foxtrotgps | Cc: | marcus.bauer@…, bastiK |
Description (last modified by )
Hi.
This bug was reported as Debian bug #528320, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528320.
Josm could share its tile cache with other programs that use OSM tiles, putting them in a standard location, maybe in $HOME/.cache (at least for Linux, don't know about other OSs) or so. This way, different programs could be serving the same tiles quickly, reducing at the same time the load on OSM servers.
Thanks, Giovanni.
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follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 15 years ago
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comment:2 by , 15 years ago
Replying to mbauer:
I don't know how the tile structure of JOSM is, tangogps saves them in zoom/x/y directories. If JOSM does the same you can simply set a symlink to the JOSM tile cache directory (only one symlink for the top level tile cache dir).
Otherwise you can configure the tilecache dir in tangogps to point to the JOSM tile cache.
Thanks for the answers. I'm aware of this tricks, but I think that the submitter of the Debian bug had a more general proposal: the problem isn't just with JOSM and tangogps, but with all the programs that consume OSM tiles. Thinking of a shared cache between all these programs could improve significantly user experience for these programs.
Giovanni.
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
| Component: | Core → Core imagery |
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| Description: | modified (diff) |
| Keywords: | tile cache added |
comment:4 by , 12 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:5 by , 11 years ago
| Milestone: | → 14.05 |
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comment:6 by , 11 years ago
| Milestone: | 14.05 → 14.06 |
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comment:7 by , 11 years ago
| Milestone: | 14.06 → 14.07 |
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Move all tickets for which no work has been done yet to next milestone
comment:10 by , 11 years ago
| Keywords: | tangogps foxtrotgps added |
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| Summary: | ability to share OSM tile cache with tangogps → ability to share OSM tile cache with FoxtrotGPS |
TangoGPS is dead, FoxtrotGPS has replaced it.
comment:11 by , 11 years ago
| Milestone: | 14.09 → 14.10 |
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Move complicated/risky tickets to next milestone.
comment:12 by , 11 years ago
| Milestone: | 14.10 → 14.11 |
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Not enough time/resources for these tickets this month.
comment:13 by , 10 years ago
| Milestone: | 14.11 → 14.12 |
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comment:16 by , 10 years ago
| Milestone: | 15.02 |
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comment:17 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
There is no common format for all programs to share the cache storage. The tile cache rewrite made it even harder.
What you can do, to share the tiles between applications is to create a proxy server on your computer (such as Squid - http://www.squid-cache.org/ ) and use it as a proxy.
comment:18 by , 10 years ago
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We tried to get there with #9813, see SharedTileCache.
Is this document still applicable?
comment:19 by , 10 years ago
Right now it's not. All tiles are stored within one binary file managed by JCS.
I don't know how the tile structure of JOSM is, tangogps saves them in zoom/x/y directories. If JOSM does the same you can simply set a symlink to the JOSM tile cache directory (only one symlink for the top level tile cache dir).
Otherwise you can configure the tilecache dir in tangogps to point to the JOSM tile cache.