[ka-Map-users] Precaching w/ labels

[Paul Spencer]

Stephan,

ka-Map uses a couple of tricks:

* draw large maps and slice up into smaller tiles (and cache on disk  
so we only do it once)

* use a buffer around each larger map draw to clean up edge effects  
and prevent labels from appearing too close to each other.

You can set up mapserver as a WMS client to use in drawing the tiles,  
but this may have the unexpected side effect of having sliced labels  
near the edge of each of the larger tiles

Cheers

Paul

On 6-Jul-06, at 4:35 AM, Stephan Holl wrote:

> Dear Ka-Map-users,
>
> I am new to kamap and I am looking for o method to tile a map. My
> situation:
> configured mapfile for showing WMS-sources with labels,
> vector-layers etc.
>
> What I need is the following:
> * predefined tiles (500x500px) of a given zoom-value with all defined
> layers/labels enabled.
>
> Is this possible? how does kamap handle labels which cross tile- 
> borders?
>
> I mus t confess that I have not yet started to set up kamap. I just
> want to make sure that this is possible.
>
> Perhaps someone can give some information about that.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> 	Stephan
> _______________________________________________
> ka-Map-users mailing list
> ka-Map-users at lists.maptools.org
> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ka-map-users

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|Paul Spencer                           pspencer at dmsolutions.ca   |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|Applications & Software Development                              |
|DM Solutions Group Inc                 http://www.dmsolutions.ca/|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+