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Tiling Kibera

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The upcoming Map Kibera project acquired some imagery recently, and I got ahold of it yesterday to set up a quick tilecache preview. There's actually been quite a few requests here recently for getting some tiles up quickly from various sets of source imagery, so I thought I'd write a few blog posts on some different ways to go about it. First, I'm assuming the end user will be requesting tiles, and that these tiles will be projected in Spherical Mercator for viewing on the web in a browser like OpenLayers or Google Maps (so I'm skipping over the bits for creating tiles that might be used in a browser like Google Earth). With that in mind, there are a few ways to get your tiles.  Note that the Kibera imagery is a nice simple example, because the area of the imagery is not that large (about 25 square km), and the source file is only a couple hundred megs as an uncompressed TIF. Option A: Pre-generate all your tiles in advance The easiest way to generate all y