Lennard <l...@xs4all.nl> writes: > On 8-4-2010 23:31, MP wrote: > >> No. This is where WMS tiles are cached. Slippy map chooser caches it >> in temporary directory (/tmp on unixes, %TEMP% on Windows machines, >> which is usually "C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Temp") and it >> creates >> "JMapViewerTiles_<Username>" directory there in which it stores the >> cached tiles. > > On my machine, I can find them in: > "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp\JMapViewerTiles_%USERNAME%\Mapnik" > > The way the tiles are stored (all in a flat dir) makes any file > operations in the Windows Explorer (in XP) almost impossible, because it > incurs very long delays in processing the dir. > > Mine a few weeks after clearing: 41877 files, 174700223 bytes > > Fortunately, clearing them from the command prompt is still fast. I > wonder why they cannot be stored one dir per zoom, or in another hashing > format.
Because nobody has implemented that. Under Linux this is usually not a problem because /tmp typically gets cleaned out at boot time (at least on Debian it does). I wonder if JOSM should delete the cached tiles on exit. Is deleting the whole directory just as slow? Matthias _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
