May 2021

Dublin

The OWG has selected Hurricane Electric as the ISP for DB4.

Standard Tile Layer

Changes have been made to improve the locality of tile backend requests, resulting in better capacity utilization in Europe.

Hardware

Planet

The OWG has decided to go with a planet server with enough disk capacity to store the planet files, rather than using an object store. The object store route was viewed as taking an unpredictable amount of time to develop.