Currently I’m trying to download some Garmin-compatible maps, but I see the download is quite slow.
Would it be a solution to use bittorrent for the distribution of maps, this would allow users to seed maps for a longer time, offloading the process from the current OSM servers.
I assume this has been suggested quite a few times before, but I do not see any clear location.
I don’t think that a “torrent” solution makes much sense, since as soon as you’ve downloaded a map it’s out of date because someone’s added something new to OSM.