[Tilesathome] Windows Installer

[Sebastian Spaeth]

On 2010-07-14, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> No one stops us from having our own mapnik style and rendering.
> Wikimedia Toolserver provides own rendering styles. I have my own server 
> running an excerpt with my own style.

Right. t at h precedes wikimedia toolserver, although that is not an excuse
to keep t at h alive. I still like it, it is much easier to set up and get
people familiar with all the technology. Call it nostalgy if you like
:-).
 
> The only "advantage" I see is the machine can be a lot smaller compared 
> to a mapnik renderer.

That is an advantage, yes.
 
> I would love to see some areas rendered in Z19 or even Z20.
> Could we set up tah to render those zoom levels in some predefined areas?
> Similar to aerial images in yahoo. Some areas have higher resolution 
> images available.

There are a couple of problems:
- Rendering the whole z12 area in z19 or z20 is going to overburden most
of the clients. z17 brings already many clients on its knees, especially
in the "interesting" areas. This is solvable by changes in the client to
not always render the whole z12 area in one go. But in needs someone who
implments it.

-Second, a tileset file can contain more than 6 levels, but the apache
 module that serves the files has been hardcoded to 6. We would need to
 improve the mod_tah module, and to be honest my C skills are not up to
 par to fudge with an performance critical apache module. :-). Help is
 welcome.
 
> >> We should have a closer look into SVG-Fonts. I believe this can lead to a 
> >> more uniform font rendering across all clients. 
> > Yes, that would be nice to have, but is afaik non-trivial.
> 
> What is the specific problem that needs to be solved? I just stumbled 
> over another font problem some minutes ago... See my other mail.

.svg files becoming much more complex leading to even more inkscape RAM
usage? Someone implementing SVG fonts in the client (we are very short
on client developers).

Sebastian