On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:57:32 -0600, Samat K Jain wrote: > On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:22:07 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: >> What is generally considered the best way to cache WMS tiles? Squid >> doesn't seem to do a great job at handling WMS data, though I'm sure >> there has to be something that does. Suggestions? > > When you say "tile", are we talking about conventional WMS or WMS-C? > > If you mean conventional WMS, where a bounding box request is sent to a > server that composes an image for the area, these kind of requests > cannot be cached with Squid, etc.
I mean WMS, and yes, I discovered that about squid; it's quite annoying. > You may want to look at Tilecache[1]. It can cache conventional WMS > requests and serve up that cache as WMS-C server/TMS, provided the app > you're using supports those. > > http://www.tilecache.org/ Tilecache looks promising, but I can't figure out how to use it even after spending weeks pouring over documentation to figure it out. Has anybody here set it up? _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
