[Tilecache] Fwd: Where in TC code is metatile cutting?

Ivan Mincik ivan.mincik at gista.sk
Sun Jan 17 12:21:45 EST 2010


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Simon Mercier <mercier.simon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Roger
> I share your point.  I tried many times to build a nice and compress 8 bits
> png and still no result.  So I add a post-processing in the TileCache v2.0
> for each ouput cache tile with ImageMagick binary process.  To active it, I
> add option in tilecache.cfg Compress=true.  It work fine but it take much
> more time to seed my cache.  I still believe it's pach and hope a PIL option
> to compress image output...
> best regard
> Simon Mercier

Hi Simon,
I am not sure, if You talk about the same problem. We can produce nice
8bit palleted images directly by Mapserver, which can not be used as
metaTiled layer in Tilecache because of PIL limits (PIL is needed to
cut metaTiled images in to tiles).



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