Hi All Many have written about tile generation in the forum. Often too many blank tiles are generated or you do not need 1:250 tiles in areas where there are nothing interesting (like sea/lakes/desert etc. unless you have a) I have an idea to the MgCooker application. How about making MgCooker able to generate tiles only in specific areas/shapes? I know you can overwrite the boundaries, but that is not enough. MgCooker should generate tiles based on a layer with shapes that MgCooker reads from the MapGuide server and only generate tiles for the areas specified by the shapes in the layer. This could also be a static GML or WKT file or something else.
Examples of use (for some known as "business case"): 1. You have a map with a banana shaped island, if you generate tiles for the entire map you generate more ocean tiles than land tiles. If you then had a layer with a shape that surrounds the shoreline you would only generate land tiles. 2. Let's say you have a layer with shapes of city boundaries. Then you could generate the tiles only for these areas and the country side you do not generate tiles. Then you could generate the first few zoom levels for the entire map (as this is quick). If people for some reason zoom to an area outside of this you generate the tiles on the fly (even though it is slow). 3. You could also have an address/point table (since you might have farms in the middle of nowhere) and only generate tiles for these points (with some buffer). This could reduce the amount of time used for tile generation and the amount of disk space used for the tiles. Just a thought. Best Regards Hans Milling... -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Generate-tiles-in-specific-areas-based-on-layer-shapes-tp5028062.html Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users