Benchmarking 2010/Mapnik notes

= Mapnik Processing Notes =

(for the Benchmarking_2010 exercise)

installation
Installation details can be seen at: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/benchmarking/mapnik/scripts/install_mapnik_rhel_5.5.sh

shpindex depth
As Mapnik's shapeindex utility does not have optimized defaults, I matched the Mapserver depths used exactly:



shapeindex -d 21 building.shp shapeindex -d 16 contour-0.shp shapeindex -d 17 contour-1.shp shapeindex -d 17 contour-2.shp shapeindex -d 17 contour-3.shp shapeindex -d 17 contour-4.shp shapeindex -d 15 contour-5.shp shapeindex -d 17 contour-6.shp shapeindex -d 17 contour-7.shp shapeindex -d 17 industry.shp shapeindex -d 10 motorway.shp shapeindex -d 15 point-labels-for-geometry.shp shapeindex -d 18 point-labels-no-geometry.shp shapeindex -d 14 ramp.shp shapeindex -d 14 road.shp shapeindex -d 16 settlement.shp shapeindex -d 16 track.shp