[Xastir] Slow raster map render

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> Since xastir supports so many different maps (formats, projections,
> yada yada yada), each one gets handled on the fly.

Right.  So that we can keep things as general as possible and not limit the user.


> Now, some sort of "no monkeying required" format might be nice, along
> with some tools to re-format (pre-render?) your favorite maps...

An "import" function for raster maps that does all of the re-projection work one time and perhaps creates tiles has been discussed before.  After that operation it would be much faster to load the correct tiles w/o reprojection.

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