[Tilesathome] Lowzoom crashes

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Milenko wrote:
> 
> There's one tile I forgot as well - 147, 96.  This fails with a long 
> inkscape error message about ways and segments and then ends with a 
> "killed" message.
>     Can someone "in the know" take a look at the tiles 135,75 and
>     147,100 at zoom level 8?  I have two machines rendering lowzoom

Well, it's a lowzoom tiles with lots and lots of coast as far as I can 
see. It might be that inkscape is just unable to cope with such a large 
SVG image. There's little that can be done there. Two possible strategies:

a) Try to have a simplifying preprocessor which reduces e.g. coastline 
details to something that makes sense in z8.

b) use a different renderer, people are looking into Batik for example.

c) cut the svg in smaller pieces and stitch them together again after 
rendering (needs to deal with overlapping text and large areas)