[OSM-dev] Newby question

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Dave Stubbs wrote:
| On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Shaun McDonald
| <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
|>
|>  On 12 May 2008, at 15:13, Alex Wilson wrote:
|>
|>  > Hi,
|>  >
|>  > I'm new to this mailing list but have been following the good work
|>  > at OSM for a while and have been very heartened by the project's
|>  > growth. I have a simple question: I'm interested in the relative
|>  > runtime of the sub-components of the Osmarender-based tile
|>  > generation process. Specifically the relative time for running the
|>  > Osmarender code itself (the XSLT+Perl) versus rendering the
|>  > resultant svg as a tile? I am presuming the former is a small
|>  > proportion of the total runtime whilst the svg rendering dominates?
|>  >
|>  > If not, I was wondering if there's any interest in developing a
|>  > version of the code in a compiled language for efficiency reasons?
|>
|>  Take a look at mapnik. I think that it does what your looking for. The
|>  problems that I know of with Mapnik are that it can take a bit to
|>  setup, and you can't do incremental updates of the database that it
|>  works off (hence why there are only weekly updates to the map).
|>
|
| Although if you're only interested in small sections of data
| retrievable with an api map call then there is no reason you couldn't
| download the data T at H style, and import to postgis/shape and render
| using mapnik. This would all happen very quickly -- probably faster
| than the T at H equivalent (I haven't tested, so I couldn't guarantee
| that).

I'm sure I saw Artem demonstrate a script called something like
mapnik at work that did exactly that. Once it had downloaded the data from
the server, the rest of the process happened essentially instantly -
certainly fast enough to not need a progress bar or anything.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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