[ka-Map-users] Precaching w/ labels

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Paul, 

thanks for your quick resonse.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:05:16 -0400 Paul Spencer
<pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:

> 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)

this is nice. I basically only want to create these tiles for use in
another application.

> 
> * 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

I was thinking about the exact problems about sliced labels at the
tile-borders. So it is true that the labels are sliced and this can be
seen when the tiles are drawn near to each other?

anyway, I think I am at the point to give it a try and test the
pretiling stuff with a sample mapfile.

Best regards

	Stephan

> 
> 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
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