[OpenLayers-Dev] map on homepage

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Schuyler Erle wrote:
> Question: any reason we shouldn't just use OSM tiles instead?
> 

I'd be in favor of having the homepage show OSM tiles.  I'm assuming 
we'd switch the map to spherical mercator.

e.g. 
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/spherical-mercator.html?layers=0000000000B0FT


> Perhaps this is an excuse for me to finally implement TMS proxying in
> TileCache...
> 
> SDE
> 
> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:02 -0400, Tim Schaub wrote:
>> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:34:35PM -0400, Tim Schaub wrote:
>>>> Hey-
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that the wms-c service on labs.metacarta.com is not up any 
>>>> more (not sure for how long).
>>>>
>>>> So I shuffled the order of layers on the website homepage so that the 
>>>> jpl layer is first [1].  This service looks very slow to me, but at 
>>>> least it returns tiles.
>>>>
>>>> Chris (or anyone else with labs.metacarta.com access), is the wms-c 
>>>> service down for good?
>>> Nah. The machine that the tiles live on is having issues, and died again
>>> this weekend; Ican only fix it from the office at the moment, so it was
>>> down this weekend. I'll be fixing it tomorrow morning (again) and have a
>>> todo to move the tile service to a machine that isn't randomly crashing about
>>> every 3 days, though I don't know when thaty'll happen.
>>>
>> Cool.  Thanks.
>>
>>>> Also, can you remind me if the website is updated automatically or manually?
>>> I didn't touch anything, and the website has the JPL map on top now, so 
>>> I'm going to assume automatically :) (That was the design; I couldn't
>>> remember if it actually worked, but it seems to.)
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/changeset/9644
>>>>
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