[Tilesathome] Tileset files

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Tue Sep 16 13:59:54 BST 2008


spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de> writes:

> the code has hardcoded assumptions of 1365 tiles per tileset all over
> the place. Given that a file will take 4-8kb of a file system anyway,
> I don't see enormous disk space savings. But in the long run, I am
> fine with the change. We would need to have both types of tileset
> files in parallel for quite a while and modify mod_tah.c to cope with
> it and modify the server to cope with it.

The savings is 4 kB per maplint tileset and about 5.3 kB per
captionless tileset.  How much that actually saves on the filesystem
depends on the filesystem.

Matthias




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