At the start of 2010, ENAiKOON commissioned Geofabrik (www.geofabrik.de) to set up two "tile servers" to calculate the tiles required to display a map from the OSM data.
As part of the order, Geofabrik wrote a new algorithm to improve queue management and load-balancing for tile calculation, and to replace renderd, the program previously used for OpenStreetMap. The new software, called Tirex, has more configuration options and matches the demanding ENAiKOON server topography better.
Benefit for the OSM project:
The new software has been provided as open source under the GPL licence and is already being used and enhanced by other project members.
For more details about this project: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tirex
