How can I create my custom tiles?

[Jason D]

Looking for input on what others do. I've implemented a custom provider. I create a large image in memory and then slice it into tiles. This works until the image is too big and I run out of memory. Surely there is a better way to do this. Ideally I would like something that creates the tiles directly to disk. Another 'problem' is that I'm doing things like 'DrawPolygon' onto my image so I don't have knowledge of exactly which pixels are being colored, otherwise I could easily figure which pixels to write to. Appreciate any help. Thanks.

[Andrey]

Hello Jason,

I'm not sure whether this approach will be applicable, but still -- you can create your image, then save it to the hard drive, and then use Microsoft DeepZoom Composer to create tiles for your application.

All the best,

Andrey Murzov

the Telerik team

[Jason D]

For anyone who has the same problem, I wound up calculating which tile each point is in, and drawing on the that tile. So the largest image in memory is only 256x256. The downside to this is that it is not as accurate and you can tiny white space in between tiles sometimes, since the data on the boundaries doesn't get drawn on adjacent tiles. I think this is just something I have to live with. An alternative is load the surrounding 8 tiles to get maximum accuracy. This has the downside of being slower since images have to constantly be loaded, drawn, and sliced up again. This method also doesn't work well on the fly, when each tile is being requested. It works well for pre-rendering, but then there's too much delay.