On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:55 PM, penorman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > I'm at work and going on vacation so I can't give a detailed answer for a > few days, but this might help
No problem, any help is appreciated. > Once the tiles are made you can serve the directories with apache or another > web server. Ah, okay I didn't realize it was that simple. > xjjk from the OSM IRC channel has a parallized version of gdal2tiles which > can significantly help processing times if you have a multi-core CPU. Would that be maptiler? I've got a dual quad-core Xeon Mac Pro with 14 gb of ram so a parallelized version would be a must. :) > You first need to set up gdal and gdal python bindings. You also need PIL > for the antialias mode which offers the best tradeoffs between quality and > speed for resizing methods. > gdal2tiles is reportedly significantly slower then it could be when > compaired to some non-public tools that do the same work. > Just for reference, I had gdal2tiles running for 1-2 weeks on my 6 core CPU > when doing the low quality surrey images and estimated it would take >1 year > on my 3 core athelon II for the 200 GB+ high quality version I'll have to give it a shot and see how long it takes to process some portion of my GeoTiff. The tiled GeoTiff is about 16 GB, where the original MrSid is 1.9GB. Might be doable. :) Thanks! Tyler _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
