Another attempt at speeding up yaouh, with persistent connections

[Robin Paulson]

2009/3/3 Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no>:
> too. It looks like openstreetmap can have up to 50 files in a directory.
>
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> So far this program has checked 5100 files in 12 minutes, and downloaded
> 260. It looks like it will get through all my 50.000 tiles in under 2 hours.
> I use wifi, the usb connection may be slower.
>
> If anyone want to try, here is the download link.
> http://www.aitel.hist.no/~helgehaf/openmoko/yaouh_new.py

awesome, that's lots faster

by the way, i don't know if it's important or not, but iirc osm folder
structure has up to 128000 files per folder, for zoom 17