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Henry Gomersall
heng at cantab.net
Thu Jan 20 13:56:23 GMT 2011
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 21:37 +0000, Graham Jones wrote:
> The map tiles for the canal map I just generated take up 2.4GB (down
> to zoom level 14). I just extracted the canal data from the database
> (lines, points and polygons) and as a simple text file it was less
> than 57MB. Gzip compression took it down to just over 17 MB. ie a
> factor of over 100 when compressed.
>
> This is not really a fair comparison though because most of my 2.4GB
> is taken up by blank tiles (tiles with no canal features in) - these
> are each 116 bytes. I am sure I could do something clever with
> having one image and lots of symbolic links which could reduce this
> significantly - better than say a factor of 10, but I don't know if I
> would get to 100. But that said, the difference was not as big as I
> expected it to be - good challenge!
>
That all sounds interesting. What format are the tiles in?
I will put my hand to helping when I have a little amount free.
Good work!
Cheers,
Henry
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