Yes, I was wondering about that too...should I have left it going. The map I'm trying to generate is from the 'GettingStarted' page on the wiki:
http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/GettingStarted The shapefile is from the mappinghacks site and the python code is exactly the same. Also, Dane noticed that there were some errors in the messages after reading the shapefile. >>Envelope(4.157518931977256e-317,4.15549523909189e-317,4.157455691574588e-317,-1.62334203800658e-118) >>>This does not. The world borders shapefile from mapping hacks should have an >>>envelope more like this: >>>Envelope(-180,-90,180,83.62359600000001) Claire On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:18:21AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Claire McLister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, however, when I try the "getting started" map image generation > > for the 'world_borders' shape file, the python process keeps churning > > (at about 100% CPU) without any results. After a few minutes I had to > > kill the process. > > What exactly are you running? I'm asking because at some point there > was a script in SVN that attempted to generate an image on the order > of 5000x10000 pixels and it took damn near forever (taking up all the > memory in the process). > > What do you know, it's still there: > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/generate_image.py > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users

