According to GMail here I added 3 attachments. Don't know why you're not seeing them.
Regarding the quad-core: It will use one heavily while rendering the maps, while the other cores do other Linux stuff and stay out of the way. So it's nice to have at least 2 cores for that reason. On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Jason Godfrey <godfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- Curt, WE7U _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir