You define the path to the mbtiles in tilestache.cfg, so yes, they could be in any location (as long as the access rights / permissions are right)
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Tim Moody <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks great and not overly complex. XSCE uses one convention that > you are probably not aware of and that is that we put data in /library, in > this case probably /library/osm or tilestache or some combination. Can > tilestache.cfg point to a location different than the html and config files? > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *Adam Holt > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 11, 2015 12:19 AM > *To:* xsce-devel <[email protected]>; Unleash Kids! < > [email protected]>; server-devel <[email protected] > > > *Subject:* [UKids] Re: [XSCE] Tilestache on XSCE stack (OSM offline) > > > > Don't stop pushing Jerome- I hope you can demonstrate Nepal-or-larger > working models during our Toronto summit Oct 10-12. > > See you 7AM EDT Thursday on our weekly call, if you have time for our > unusually early meeting this week: http://tinyurl.com/xsceminutes > > > (Several of our early design discussions on offline mapping began on > [email protected], so am bringing that thread full circle.) > > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Anish Mangal <[email protected]> wrote: > > adding server-devel (the publicly archived mailing list) as well. > > Great work. Thanks! > > Happy to help with the testing. I have an intel NUC running an atom > processor 2 Ghz, and 2GB RAM - not exactly low end, but still a viable > appliance to deploy the xsce. > > Could you tell me how to get the mbtiles from your ftp. If this works, I > can help with creating a playbook - and possibly admin console integration. > > Thanks, > > Anish > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all > > > > This is about the project to bring a new way of storing OpenStreetMaps > offline for internet in a box (schoolserver). > > > > (Apologies if I'm using the wrong mailing list, feel free to add more) > > > > I wanted to test what it would look like to run Tilestache to serve > .mbtiles using the schoolserver. So I installed XSCE on a local VM with > Fedora 21 here, installed Tilestache, moved the .mbtiles in it, and did > some testing. > > So far I only tested with Nepal zoom 0-13 and Nepal zoom 14-15 (to see how > combining multiple files was working) > > I reduced the VM to use only 1 core at 50% (I'm on MBP Intel i5 2.6Ghz, 2 > cores). Speed was decent when viewing with leaflet in my browser from my > laptop. > > > > I've created a gist that explains all the steps required to do it > > https://gist.github.com/jeromegv/cb64bc2c9777794e80af > > > > The reason I wanted to test it was also to see if the integration would be > relatively straightforward. I assume you would eventually want to do the > install through the schoolserver admin console. When comes the time to do > that, I might not be the person to do this integration, but I think that > the steps I've done so far should at least prove that the XSCE stack should > be compatible. > > > > - I might not have the best testing setup or what is similar to a > typical schoolserver, if you have the proper hardware to test, let me know, > I can send you the .mbtiles on a FTP for nepal and you can test it (about > 1Gb) > - Feel free to provide feedback on the GIST and if the integration > seems to make sense > - There's an extra optimization that is possible for tilestache, to > cache the tiles to the HD once they were retrieved and served from the > .mbtiles once. It's currently disabled. Not so sure if it's worth it and > how much we would gain considering MBtiles are already pre-rendered files, > perhaps better to test once we have a full planet. The downside is that it > stores on HD a lot of PNG files and this might eventually baloon if you get > tons of people to use those maps. Benefit of sticking entirely to mbtiles > is we know exactly how much disk space. Might be optional setting from > admin console when there's plenty of HD available. > - Next step for me will be to test generation of MBtiles for bigger > country and eventually get to the Planet. Will need some type of cloud > setup to manage/store all that. > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer > > -- > > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Unleash Kids" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Unleash Kids" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
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