[Tilesathome] New preprocessor - area center
Jiri Klement
jiri.klement at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 13:51:16 BST 2008
I've turned on AreaCenter preprocessor for orp as well. I think it's
better to risk some strange looking icons/captions at neighbouring
tiles than have all icons/caption for nonrectangular shapes misplaced.
Feel free to revert the commit...
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Jiri Klement <jiri.klement at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Of course client performance is good, but it's not critical. The XSLT
>>> version basically is just unmaintained and unmaintainable. That is why
>>> the perl replacement was started.
>
> I don't agree. XSLT version works and it's still useful for
> transforming osm - svg in browser or for making custom maps. Setting
> up orp might be too dificult for some users. The only problem I see
> with XSLT is performance and memory consumption.
>
>> I think it was also eating up more memory. Since I switched to or/p I
>> have not had any memory problems on any of my clients. (I have memory
>> problems myself, but that's a different subject...)
>
> That's probably true. XSLT 1.0 is really limited language, you have to
> use recursion too often. XSLT 2.0 is much more practical but
> unfortunatelly it's not widely supported. Only open source project
> supporting XSLT 2.0 I know of is saxon.
>
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