[mapserver-users] mapcache_seed fill in missing tiles?

[Simon Mercier]

Yves

no. mapcache_seed will create missing tiles only and in the extent. If 
tiles exist mapcache_seed will skip them.  Based on my experience it's 
super fast and you dont have to know where are missing tiles

You can force seeding with -f option but it's very slow.  I prefere to 
delete tiles first or use "-m delete" for specific area



On 16-05-16 03:34 AM, Yves Jacolin wrote:
> On Sunday, May 15, 2016 21:04:06 Simon Mercier wrote:
>> yep.  you can use mapcache_seed to fill missing tiles in a specific area
>> for level 1 to 16 like this:
>>
>> sudo -u www-data mapcache_seed -c mapcacheConfig.xml -t my_tileset_name
>> -g g -e -7808229,6035336,-7115330,6340836 -z 1,16 -n 8
>> [..]
> Hello Simon,
>
> So that's mean that if we don't know where are exactly the missing tiles user
> need to seed again all the cache?
>
> And as Mapcache overwrite existing tiles (if I am correct) that's mean that it
> can be very long to get just few missing tiles.
>
> Y.

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