I have some MODIS imagery 250m resolution covering a large area which I generate tiles from using Mapnik and generate_tiles.py script. I need to run this script every day with new satellite images, therefore the tiles must be generated fast! I have noticed that the bigger the source image is (in MB) the slower it gets. Since my source MODIS image is quite huge, it takes ages to generate all those tiles.
My question is: Which is the best way of handling the files when it comes to creating tiles from raster?
Perhaps it might be faster to first generate large tiles (metatiles?) and then generate tiles from those tiles?
Note: the answer doesn't have to be Mapnik and generate_tiles.py. It could be maybe Mapserver, Tilecache etc.
Edit: I have found this question How to cut a 'tiled image' from a raster dataset using GDAL? which answers somewhat my question. What still remains unsolved is which size of metatiles should be used?
Answer
Instead of creating metatiles I have now tested different tiling scripts that I've found. They are all using the same source image which is a JPG (with a .JGW) in EPSG:3857 projection. Bilinear has been used in scaling and the zoom level was 9.
So far gdal2tiles.py wins!
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