[Tilecache] TileCache in Mapnik

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:52:19AM +0200, Michal Volek wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm new to Mapnik and TileCache. Now I'm playing with mapnik, trying some
> custom data with custom projections, and it works. But I need to generate
> tiles in specific scales. Lets say, i need tiles in size 800x800 px in
> scales 1:200.000, 1:100.000, 1:50.000, 1:25.000 and so, for whole Europe. Is
> it possible to do this with TileCache and Mapnik, or TileCache will be able
> to use just it's own structure> tiles stored in directories like
> basic/0/000/001/053/000/021/052.png and its own levels of view 1-15? Thanks
> for any ideas, hleps.

For generating single images of a single size, o reven a set of them, I
highly recommend you check the existing Mapnik tools for this process.
OpenStreetMap and Mapnik itself both have a fair number of image
generation tools that likely better fit the bill than does TileCache. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta