[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Software development - most pressing issues

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Nov 29, 2007 4:29 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> Judging by the current 1000000+ tile backlog it will something
> significant doing to increase the rate at which tiles can be
> rendered.

There are ways to increase the throughput of tiles, for example,
rendering larger areas in one go. Mapnik rendering speed is sublinear,
rendering an area equivalent to 25 tiles only takes a few times longer
than rendering a single tile. However, determining whether that would
help the queue backlog kind of depends on the distribution of the
tiles queued.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/