Render improvements: Somebody timed inkscape on a German forum and found that loading the SVG takes most of the time, and exporting to png is rather quick. Given that inkscape seems to render the whole SVG internally anyway, even if we export only a small excerpt to png, I was wondering if we should not make use of that fact, and simply export the whole svg to one png in one render go. It could then be split up into the tiles....
Of course that doesn't help with memory consumption in Boston downtown, but it would save us: 1 render go at z13 3 at z14 7 at z15 15 at z16 31 at z17. So we'd need only 6 inkscape calls, rather than 63 now (if I haven't gotten that wrong). This could be quite a timesaver. Worthwhile exploring? It could also be done differently, depending on the tileset complexity measure we get from the server. spaetz _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
