Thank you for the fast replay, Sorry I meant 800 MB. not GB...
I indexed all of the files with the default values and made a test without any significant difference (it takes with or without that .index files around 39 minutes to render a smaller test area from zoomlevel 0 to 15. This is including the same files I need to render the bigger area. This seems to me that the .index files are useless by the default parameters or not uses by mapnik anyway. So: (1) Do I have to set a flag within my xml file to explain mapnik to use that .index files? (2) Or do I need to use the parameters "max tree depth" and/or "split ratio"? But I'm very sorry. I have no what that means, and what could help to improve rendering my files. Bye, Sisyphos > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > > _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
