On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:27:31AM +0100, Steve Hill wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > >TileCache + OSM + Mapnik is probably a very poor path to take. The world > >boundaries shapefiles are simply too large to reasonably expect to fit > >into memory on most machines in a TileCache-like setup. > > Why not put all the shapefiles in PostGIS? Surely that would allow them > to be processed more efficiently? (At least, I have everything in PostGIS > on OpenPisteMap and it seems to work well. However, I'm not using > TileCache and my Mapnik is probably somewhat out of date).
Setting up mod_tile is probably easier than keeping an up-to-date set of coastline shapes in PostGIS. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
