On 28 December 2010 17:43, Benjamin Bruecker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm currently rendering Esri shape files containing the area of > Germany from zoom level 0 to 17. The result should be tiles like > OpenStreetMap, but I use other data... > > The computer is now rendering from zoom level 0 to 16 more than a > week... and its still not ready.. I renderd the same area with an OSM > dump from a PostGIS database within 60 hours (this time meets my > requirements). > > I guess for my data a spatial index is necessary for rendering. Some > files are 800 GB big. For all of this files I have an shx-index file, > but test didn't show any difference between rendering with mapnik with > or without those shx files. I'm not sure about that, but it seems to > me that mapnik doesn't use them. > > What would you suggest? Maybe importing those files to PostGIS? Or > would you recommend to use other databases with spatial indexes that > are good supported by Mapnik? > > Thx, > Sisyphos > ____ Hi Sisyphos, ESRI index files are not supported. I suggest you use 'shapeindex' utility which comes with Mapnik distro to create index files. Run with -h(--help) to see program options. In case of very large shapefiles consider moving data to postgresql. Did you mean 800GB or 800Mb? Regards, Artem > ___________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >
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