Curt, did you intend to attach pictures or a link? I don't see anything. Do you find the quad- core actually makes a difference? Years ago I looked at parallelizing the shapefile rendering, but I never found a way that wasn't more invasive than i was willing to undertake.
- Jason On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:16 PM Curt Mills <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yea. Here are several, but it looks like I don't have OSM data on the > work machine. I do however have Tiger 2004 ESRI Shapefile format maps, > so I enabled those and did several snapshots. Looks like I might need > to do some local tweaks to get better looking fonts, but these render > fast! Of course this is a quad-Xeon machine which makes a little bit > of a difference... > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:51 PM, David Ranch <xas...@trinnet.net> wrote: > > > > Hey Curt, > > > > Could you send us a screen capture of what your rendered ESRI Shapefile > data > > looks like? I personally don't necessarily need ultra pretty tiles but I > > definitely don't need the complexity and resource hungry requirements of > > setting up a local tile server. If my old little Garmin handheld GPS > can do > > maps pretty well from a little SD card, why can't Xastir do this too? > There > > has to be a decent compromise somewhere in this whole thread. > > > > --David > > KI6ZHD > > > > > > On 11/19/2015 01:44 PM, Curt Mills wrote: > >> > >> What he said... > >> > >> I prefer the fastest/smallest vector dataset that will do the job. It > >> may not be the prettiest when rendered, but I'm more interested in > >> useful data and ultimate speed than "pretty". For me that currently > >> means OSM vector data in ESRI Shapefile format, with the appropriate > >> dbfawk's to render it the way I want in Xastir. I don't use, and don't > >> desire, tiles. I would like to have contour lines as well someday, so > >> may investigate adding support for USGS DEM's at some point, or > >> perhaps I can find ESRI Shapefile maps with the countour lines already > >> drawn for me, which is perfectly adequate (and faster). > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Skyler F <electricity...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> So the ultimate solution for the raspberry pi folks would be to run a > >>>> tile > >>>> server on their home computer (so there is no violation of terms and > you > >>>> can download as many tiles as needed), and then run this script to > cache > >>>> as > >>>> many maps as needed onto their pi. I think that is the way to go! > >>>> > >>> This sorta sounds like the worst of both worlds to me - you are still > >>> tied > >>> to your home network connectivity to get maps, but you additionally > have > >>> all of the hassles of running a server just to keep maps available. > ugh. > >>> > >>> I'm with Andrew, my "ultimate" is vector data that xastir can ingest > >>> directly. > >>> > >>> The only reason for me to set up a map server is if I can't get said > >>> vector > >>> data formatted for xastir. There's a slight advantage to sourcing OSM > >>> data, since that's the FOSS GIS data du jour. A portable tile server > >>> (e.g. > >>> mobile, incident command post, remote event HQ, etc) would likely > require > >>> a > >>> fairly well endowed computer (high end laptop, potent SBC like an Intel > >>> NUC, or _maybe_ a higher end ARM like a Jetson TK1). I seriously doubt > >>> Pi/beaglebone/etc is going to get the job done as a tile server, > they're > >>> just too anemic computationally. > >>> > >>> -Jason > >>> kg4wsv > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Xastir mailing list > >>> Xastir@lists.xastir.org > >>> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > -- > Curt, WE7U > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir