Extension talk:SlippyMap/Static map generation

Notes

Caching/expiration:

• Static maps of arbitrary size presumably have much the same problem here as the map tile images. How is it handled there?

Storage:

• Just a warning that we'll be moving off of raw filesystem storage for generated files soon. Also we probably prefer if we don't have to render things from the main apache servers as much as possible, to isolate things for config, security, performance, etc.
• One possibility to consider: have the wiki generate an image URL which hits the static map rendering service, which then generates the map on demand; either storing it on local disk there or simply leaving it to be cached by upper-level squids. A reasonable timeout could be set.

-- brion 22:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)