> It just occurred to me that the mapnik tile server uses a system of "meta > tiles" where they combine 64 tiles of one zoom level into one big file. They > have ready utilites for moving existing single tiles in/out of these files, > and they have an apache module that efficiently answers tile requests based > on these meta tiles. > > Maybe we could use the same system and get some synergies?
mod_tile ( http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/mod_tile ) is doing much more than it's neccessary for [EMAIL PROTECTED] tiles serving so I don't think it's a good idea to use it as-is to server [EMAIL PROTECTED] tiles. But it might be good starting point. I'm not really sure about mapnik's metatiles. Uploading will get slower, metafiles will be a bit bigger and format is not suitable for saving metadata. On the other hand having tiles for one zoom in metafile is better for serving and utilities are already written. _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome
