On 03/07/2013 08:36 AM, Jason Lee wrote:
Hi all,
It might seem an odd question but I'll give it a shot - would
mod_tile/renderd support the dynamic generation of map tiles in a map
projection other than web mercator? If not, then would it be
possible/how difficult would it be to modify the code to support it?
If by dynamic you mean you want to be able to select a different
projection on every request, then that is currently not possible.
However I am working on making mod_tile more configurable /
paramerizable which can possibly be used for different projections per
request as well. It is initially intended to make seting up rendering of
multi-lingual maps like [1] easier, but it is basically just an
extension to be able to pass in an arbitrary string parameter to renderd
that can then parameterize the mapnik map object in various ways. With
this you could have URLs like http://yourtileserver.org/tiles/srs
27700/0/0/0.png using mod_tile and renderd.
If you mean dynamic generation of tiles that are always in the same
projection albeit a different one than web mercator, then that should
probably be doable with little modifications. The main issue I see with
that is the tile numbering schema. I presume not all projections have
the same numbering schema of (z^2) x (z^2) tiles per zoom level. At the
moment there are a number of sanity checks in mod_tile and renderd that
filter out requests that don't adhere to this restriction. However, it
should be fairly trivial to modify those checks to reference the
appropriate checks for the projection you wish. There are a few other
minor modifications you would likely need in renderd, but from a quick
glance over the code, they should be rather easily doable.
Kai
The only other thing I can think of is using MapProxy with Mapnik
backend but I'm not sure the scalabilty/performance compared to mod_tile.
Thanks and regards,
Jason
[1] http://mlm.jochentopf.com/
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