Dear all In case of interest, I added a simple solution for on-disk tile caching for tiled layers in pm5. It only requires enough disk space for the cache image tiles and a few config parameters.
It's mainly useful for large datasets that shall be displayed at lower zoom levels but have too many details to be rendered acceptably fast at lower zoom levels. Could be vector layers with a lot of details or raster layers with lots of single files to be read. The advantage to a fully-fledged tile cache solution (like MapCache) is that it does not require additional service set-ups. And in case of vector layers it also supports legend icons (and printing, once it is fully working...). If you want to try, see changesets 1372 and 1375 for the files to be updated from svn trunk. Config parameters are listed here: http://svn.pmapper.net/trac/wiki/XmlFileSettingsFive?action=diff&version=12 could look like <category name="cat_admin" imgFormat="png32" olTheme="admin" buffer="0" themeType="PMTile" tileCache="true" cacheMaxLevel="12"> and needs under <map> an entry like <tileCacheRoot>/path/to/pmapper_tilecache/default</tileCacheRoot> A corresponding basic seeding functionality is currently in test. Out-dated tile files, e.g. due to changes in symbology, need to removed manually in the directory of the tile cache. But the Unix "find" command allows a quite comprehensive functionality for this. Regards /A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ pmapper-users mailing list pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users