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Map Markup Language is hypertext for Web maps, like HTML is hypertext for Web pages https://maps4html.org/MapML-Specification/spec/
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Is domain sharding still necessary? #233

Open prushforth opened 2 years ago

prushforth commented 2 years ago

OpenStreetMap is recommending that a,b,c subdomains be removed, replaced with tile.openstreetmap.org.

In light of this, maybe the shard attribute and associated markup is no longer a requirement, and can be dropped.

Adding a to-do list of places this can be removed:

Malvoz commented 2 years ago

Since HTTP2 supports unlimited concurrent requests and HTTP2 is supported in all major browsers it does seems that domain sharding is no longer necessary.

prushforth commented 2 years ago

Kind of frustrating that HTTP and support by browsers is progressing faster than this proposal. That said, it's always a pleasure to delete code.