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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Thu Feb 18 10:19 , Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> sent:</billk@iinet.net.au></span><BR>
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>Tim, I have been a member of the mailing list since the 90's - and a<BR>
>plug member on and off. I am quite happy to pay the fees, but lazyness<BR>
>and not being "in your face" about renewing it means it doesnt happen<BR>
>often. So step 1 is to send out renewals! - the mailing list being open<BR>
i>is great and the only service I am using - but that doesnt mean I am not<BR>
>willing to be a member - just need prompting. Especially as an online<BR>
>payment was available awhile back - is that still the case?<BR>
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I'm with Bill here. I've never formally joined, but would have no problem subscribing - the mailing list is often interesting and informative and sometimes very useful, so to me the small amount of money is worthwhile. But, sorry, you have to remind me. By email is good of course.<BR>
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>1. openstreetmap for WA - static tiles, not dynamically generated. I<BR>
>want to add the NASA shuttle radar profile to it eventually but have not<BR>
>got there yet (too little time :). Produced by downloading the weekly<BR>
>updates (>100Mb world wide updates/week) and regenerating the tiles for<BR>
>zoom 5-12 for WA, and zoom 13-17 for the greater Perth metro area and<BR>
>various cherry picked towns (i.e., where I visit/holiday - currently<BR>
>includes Thailand/Phuket :) weekly - easily expanded to other areas/zoom<BR>
>levels. It is possible to dynamically generate on request, but some<BR>
>serious server side grunt is needed - statically just needs bandwidth to<BR>
>up/download, preferably via rsync. Consists of 1,553,431 png tiles<BR>
>occupying ~3.2Gb, but it can be tar.bz2'd down to a couple of hundred Mb<BR>
>as there are a lot of duplicate tiles (ocean, desert, ...).<BR>
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This got my attention. I have no idea if I'd find it useful, but I'd definitely find it interesting.<BR>
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Paul<BR>
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