[Qgis-user] Generate tiles or qgis as a tile server

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Hi,

If you are looking for an online solution, you might have a look to
https://mapproxy.org/ or the good old http://tilecache.org/



On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 12:08 AM Carles Pina i Estany <carles at pina.cat>
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> We have a map of a large area (2600 Km x 1300 Km).
>
> I'd like to generate tiles (Slippy Map, to be used by Leaflet).
>
> I've tried to use QTiles and QMetaTiles and I'm having memory problems.
> I've tried a few times with QTiles and I see the memory usage going up
> and it hasn't started generating tiles, it seems that QMetaTiles has the
> same problem.
>
> So, two questions:
> a) Any other way to generate tiles to be used by Leaflet or other
> software? (other plugins, other ideas)
> b) I've been searching for this but I haven't found it: could qgis (via
> a plugin or no plugin) act as a tile server? That would be ideal and
> work for us: no tile generation.
>
> I know that generating the tiles for such a big area if I go to very
> high zoom levels will take very long time. I wouldn't mind if it took a
> matter of days (specially if I "could see the progress" either in files
> generated or somehow). I also know that the storage would be very big.
> The main problem is obviously the RAM memory used by QTiles, so I
> wondered if there is any other approach or something to optimize.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
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