[OSM-talk] rendering map tiles with mapnik - hardware requirements

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 11:42:38 GMT 2011


2011/2/28 Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at gmail.com>:

> To improve the responsiveness you probably want to pre-render all the
> tiles from zoom 0 through to around zoom 13, 14 or 15. These are the
> ones which take the longest to render, leaving the higher zooms to
> render on demand. For a relatively small area it will probably take a
> couple of days of CPU time to render these.


Yes, you will not need a very big machine. I am currently rendering
Italy (similar in size to NZ) and it takes around 2 days with a really
lame laptop (3 GB RAM, Intel Core2 Solo U3500 @1.4 GHz) for Zoomlevels
0-15 (one day for Level 0-14) and a quite complex stylesheet.

cheers,
Martin



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