[Xastir] Caching maps?

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:45:56PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <needhame1 at plateautel.net> flavor, containing:
> 
> 	Well I seem to have map caching working -- so let me ask a couple of 
> questions about maps --
> 
> 	First, how long will a particular map stay in the cache?

Until you clear the cache, I believe.  I'm not aware of any time-out.

> 	Second -- is the size of the cache limited, other than room left on the hard 
> drive?

No.

> 	Third -- is there more than one flavor of Tiger maps?

You can configure how the on-line tiger maps are chosen (i.e. with different
types of features enabled).  Other than that, there's only on-line Tiger maps
and local shapefile Tiger maps --- they're both from the same data, but the
on-line ones are rendered at the Census web server and downloaded as a raster,
and the local shapefiles are rendered by Xastir as vector data.

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