[Marble-devel] Shared tile cache

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi Yuri,

On Monday, 2014-03-24, 15:05:58, Yuri D'Elia wrote:

> I wrote the following draft, which outlines a very simple scheme that
> mimics the already know tile format layout (with the exception of an
> extra configuration file, the format *is* the same), a common location,
> and some common rules in order for applications to cooperate on a shared
> cache which *must* be simple to use.
> 
> The draft is here:
> 
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/SharedTileCache

I think this is a great idea, but I am a bit afraid that the paths are a bit 
too generic.
E.g. on Unix you have $XDG_CACHE_HOME/tiles, but the term "tiles" is a really 
common term.
"tiles" of what?

Maybe be a bit more explicit, e.g.
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/osm-tiles or $XDG_CACHE_HOME/osm/tiles
or even OpenStreetMap instead of osm.

The top level under $XDG_*_HOME is basically a shared namespace, using too 
generic terms will just lead to collisions.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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