[OSM-dev] Rendering Strategy

[marqqs at gmx.eu]

Hello again,

meanwhile I have established a rendering strategy other than mod_tile an a bit easier than tirex - I think.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openptmap/Installation#Use_a_Rendering_Strategy

Until now, it works fine. Thanks again for your suggestions and Ideas!

Markus

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:33:21 +0100
> Von: "marqqs at gmx.eu" <marqqs at gmx.eu>
> An: dev at openstreetmap.org
> Betreff: Re: [OSM-dev] Rendering Strategy

> Thanks for your quick reply!
> 
> On 20.12.2010 07:35, Stephan Plepelits wrote:
> >> 1.: If a tile is requested by a user (and thus served by Apache), it
> shall be rendered next morning at 5:00.
> > Why not rendering them as soon as possible? mod_tile[1] will help you
> with
> > this.
> Yes, interesting software. That would mean to render on the fly. I am not
> sure if my weak virtual server would cope with the task doing both at the
> same time, rendering tiles and serving tiles.
> 
> >> 2.: If a tile gets older than 100 days, it shall be rendered regardless
> of the time it has been displayed last.
> > Tirex[2] (a replacement of the renderd which ships with mod_tile) might
> > help you with this.
> I will look into this, thanks!
> Meanwhile, I'm thinking about aging the tiles using the means of the
> operating system. Thus, the rendering process could pick all the old tile image
> files at night and start their rerendering. At the moment, I am not
> completely sure which way to go but I will post the result as soon as I have a
> solution.
> 
> Markus
> 
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