On 12 May 2008, at 15:13, Alex Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this mailing list but have been following the good work > at OSM for a while and have been very heartened by the project's > growth. I have a simple question: I'm interested in the relative > runtime of the sub-components of the Osmarender-based tile > generation process. Specifically the relative time for running the > Osmarender code itself (the XSLT+Perl) versus rendering the > resultant svg as a tile? I am presuming the former is a small > proportion of the total runtime whilst the svg rendering dominates? > > If not, I was wondering if there's any interest in developing a > version of the code in a compiled language for efficiency reasons?
Take a look at mapnik. I think that it does what your looking for. The problems that I know of with Mapnik are that it can take a bit to setup, and you can't do incremental updates of the database that it works off (hence why there are only weekly updates to the map). Shaun _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
