NAME

       mapcache_seed - generate tiles to seed mapcache

SYNOPSIS

       mapcache_seed -c /path/to/mapcache.xml [options]

DESCRIPTION

       mapcache_seed is an advanced seeding tool for mapcache, whose main features are:

       • configurable number of seeding threads, to speed up the rendering

       • ability to reseed tiles older than a certain timestamp

       • ability to seed tiles given a shapefile/OGR datasource

OPTIONS

       -c, --config file
              Path to the mapcache.xml configuration file that contains the tilesets that need to be seeded.

       -C, --cache override
              Override  cache  used  by  selected  tileset  (useful  for  selectively seeding fallback/multitier
              caches).

       -t, --tileset name
              Name of the tileset that must be seeded.

       -g, --grid name
              Name of the grid that must be seeded (the selected tileset must reference the given grid).

       -z, --zoom minzoom,maxzoom
              (Optional) Start and end zoom levels that must be seeded, separated by a comma, e.g. 0,6.

       -M, --metasize width,height
              Override metatile size while seeding, e.g. 8,8.

       -e, --extent minx,miny,maxx,maxy
              (Optional) Bounding box of the area to seed.

       -o, --older timestamp|now
              (Optional) Only seed tiles that are older than the given value.   The  value  can  either  be  the
              string  "now",  or  a  date  formatted  like year/month/day hour:minute, e.g.: "2011/01/31 20:45".
              (Note that a full timestamp should be quoted).

       -n, --nthreads number
              Number of parallel threads that should be used to request tiles from the WMS source.  The  default
              is 1, but can be set higher if the WMS server can withstand parallel requests (as a rule of thumb,
              the value chosen here should never be much higher than the number of cpus on the WMS server). (In‐
              compatible with -p/--nprocesses).

       -p, --nprocesses number
              Number of parallel processes that should be used to request tiles from the WMS source. (Incompati‐
              ble with -n/--nthreads).

       -P, --precent number
              Percent  of  failed  requests allowed from the last 1000 before we abort (default: 1%, set to 0 to
              abort on first error).

       -L, --log-failed file
              Log failed tiles to file.

       -R, --retry-failed file
              Rtry failed requests logged to file by --log-failed.

       -m, --mode seed|delete|transfer
              Mode the utility will be running in: either seed (default), delete or transfer.

       -x, --transfer tileset
              Name of tileset to transfer.

       -D, --dimension DIMENSION=VALUE
              Used to specify which dimension to use if the tileset supports dimensions. Can  be  used  multiple
              times to set multiple dimensions, e.g. -D "DIM1=VAL1" -D "DIM2=VAL2".

       -h, --help
              Show help.

       -q, --quiet
              Don't print progress messages to the standard output.

       -f, --force
              Force tile recreation even if it already exists.

       -v, --verbose
              Print verbose debugging info (if compiled in).

       Optional Commandline options when using OGR/GEOS.

       At  compile  time, if OGR and GEOS where found on the system, the seeder tool supports additional options
       to seed only the tiles that cover an arbitrary geographical area.

       Important: Note that for the time being, the OGR datasource should be in the same projection as the  grid
       you are seeding, as there is no automatic reprojection from the datasource projection to the grid projec‐
       tion.

       -d, --ogr-datasource datasource
              OGR  connection to the spatial source. Consult the OGR documentation for all that is supported. In
              the simplest case (e.g. a Shapefile), this is just the full filename of the shapefile.

       -l, --ogr-layer layer
              (Optional) For datasources that contain multiple layers (e.g. postgis, with multiple tables),  de‐
              termines which layer will be used.

       -s, --ogr-sql SQL
              OGR sql expression that can be applied (see http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_sql.html).

       -w, --ogr-where where
              SQL  "where" expression to filter out returned values. This would typically be used to select only
              the geometry of a given country if the datasource contains all the world contours.

NOTES

       The seeding utility must be run under the same user account as the user running the  webserver.  This  is
       required  so the permissions on the tiles created by the seeder are accessible by the webserver, and con‐
       versely so the seeder has the rights to write files to directories created by the webserver.

       A sample seeding session goes like this:

               [user@host]$ sudo www-data
               [www-data@host]$ mapcache_seed -c /path/to/www/conf/mapcache.xml [options]
               [www-data@host]$ logout
               [user@host]$

EXAMPLE

       Seed the "osm" tileset with the "g"(google/web-mercator) grid:

               mapcache_seed -c mapcache.xml -t osm -g g

       Seed levels 0 through 12:

               mapcache_seed -c mapcache.xml -t osm -g g -z 0,12

       Given a shapefile that contains the world country contours, seed only the areas that are covered by  land
       (i.e. skip the oceans). Also use 4 request threads in parallel:

               mapcache_seed -c mapcache.xml -t osm -g g -z 0,12 -n 4 -d /path/to/seed.shp

       Same  as  beforehand,  but only seed the USA (notice the quote usage, required to create valid sql with a
       single-quoted 'US':

               mapcache_seed -c mapcache.xml -t osm -g g -z 0,12 -n 4 -d /path/to/seed.shp -w "FIPS_A2='US'"

       Reseed levels 0 to 12 (this could also be done by deleting the cache for levels 0 to 12 and doing a clas‐
       sic seed, but doing so this way does not slow down the access from web clients):

               mapcache_seed -c mapcache.xml -t osm -g g -z 0,12 -o now

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