Hello, I'm a GIS developer and I've started recently using the OpenLayers API and found it as an excellent tool. I've succeeded using Google maps and OSM as my background maps but I want to cache these tiles on my server, in order to get them faster but I didn't find the way to do it. I tried to use TileCache.org and it is great for my Mapinfo server but not for the OSM or Google. How am I suppose to do it? I didn't find the correct place to ask on tilecache and because i've seen mention to this subject in the last digest, i'm asking it here! I'd very appreciate your help.
I must add that OpenLayers is the best project I've seen. all the best for you, the developers! Best regards, Moshe Shpitz Beit-El ,Israel 2009/3/28 <dev-requ...@openlayers.org> > Send Dev mailing list submissions to > dev@openlayers.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dev-requ...@openlayers.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dev-ow...@openlayers.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Dev digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Transition From Google's API to OL (Arnie Shore) > 2. Re: Transition From Google's API to OL - Correction! (Arnie Shore) > 3. Re: Transition From Google's API to OL (Stephen Woodbridge) > 4. Re: Triage Meeting, Round #2 (Eric Lemoine) > 5. maps with all "overlays" (Tim Schaub) > 6. Re: Transition From Google's API to OL (Schuyler Erle) > 7. Re: Transition From Google's API to OL (Arnie Shore) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:16:50 -0500 > From: Arnie Shore <asho...@verizon.net> > Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] Transition From Google's API to OL > To: "d...@openlayers" <dev@openlayers.org> > Message-ID: <49cd3432.60...@verizon.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Folks, hello, and I wonder if anyone can share experiences doing such a > transition. (I've tried this question with the users group but with no > responses. It was suggested that I try this august group, so here 'tis.) > > Background: I've written a free, Open Source application targeted to > the public safety community, notably ham radio groups who kick into gear > during emergency/crisis conditions. It relies on their mapping API, > currently. > > But under emergency conditions that comprise the reasons for this > community's existence, internet connectivity to Google may not exist of > course. Accordingly, I'm planning a version of the app in which the > tile sets and API are resident at a local server. Hence my strong > interest in OL. > > I can't imagine I'm the only one here doing anything like that, so I'll > appreciate hearing re experiences doing this, plus, especially, thoughts > on the tile sets available. Thanks, all. > > Arnold Shore > Annapolis, MD > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:41:33 -0500 > From: Arnie Shore <asho...@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Transition From Google's API to OL - > Correction! > To: "d...@openlayers" <dev@openlayers.org> > Message-ID: <49cd39fd.9010...@verizon.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Sorry, "Google's" for "their" below; DUH! > > Folks, hello, and I wonder if anyone can share experiences doing such a > transition. (I've tried this question with the users group but with no > responses. It was suggested that I try this august group, so here 'tis.) > > > > Background: I've written a free, Open Source application targeted to the > public safety community, notably ham radio groups who kick into gear during > emergency/crisis conditions. It relies on Google's mapping API, > > currently. > > > > But under emergency conditions that comprise the reasons for this > community's existence, internet connectivity to Google may not exist of > course. Accordingly, I'm planning a version of the app in which the tile > sets and API are resident at a local server. Hence my strong interest in > OL. > > > > I can't imagine I'm the only one here doing anything like that, so I'll > appreciate hearing re experiences doing this, plus, especially, thoughts > > on the tile sets available. Thanks, all. > > > > Arnold Shore > > Annapolis, MD > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:46:10 -0500 > From: Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> > Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Transition From Google's API to OL > To: Arnie Shore <asho...@verizon.net> > Cc: "d...@openlayers" <dev@openlayers.org> > Message-ID: <49cd4922.9030...@swoodbridge.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Arnie Shore wrote: > > Folks, hello, and I wonder if anyone can share experiences doing such a > > transition. (I've tried this question with the users group but with no > > responses. It was suggested that I try this august group, so here 'tis.) > > > > Background: I've written a free, Open Source application targeted to > > the public safety community, notably ham radio groups who kick into gear > > during emergency/crisis conditions. It relies on their mapping API, > > currently. > > > > But under emergency conditions that comprise the reasons for this > > community's existence, internet connectivity to Google may not exist of > > course. Accordingly, I'm planning a version of the app in which the > > tile sets and API are resident at a local server. Hence my strong > > interest in OL. > > > > I can't imagine I'm the only one here doing anything like that, so I'll > > appreciate hearing re experiences doing this, plus, especially, thoughts > > on the tile sets available. Thanks, all. > > Arnie, > > There is not magic to doing what you want, just a lot of work. > > OpenLayers is a good way to go. I have client that had originally built > application on Google and have since migrated to OpenLayers. You will > need to get something like the Tiger Shapefiles and process them into > something suitable for you purposes to work with UMN Mapserver which can > serve map images to OpenLayers or can be used to generate tiles. > > You can start by rebuilding your application using OpenLayers and > continue using Google for the time being. Then when you have it rehosted > into the OpenLayers API, you can turn your attention to getting the maps > working. Once you have Mapserver generating maps, you can change a few > lines of OpenLayers to switch it between Mapserver and Google. Another > option might be to use OSM and Tilecache to cache a copy of the OSM > tiles locally. > > When you are ready to focus on the Mapserver side of things, join the > mapserver list and I'm sure we will be glad to help you. > > -Steve > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:43:33 +0100 > From: Eric Lemoine <eric....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Triage Meeting, Round #2 > To: Christopher Schmidt <crschm...@metacarta.com> > Cc: dev@openlayers.org > Message-ID: > <5ec103de0903271443j3f0a967cw5c5ab295b3b3...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I hope to be able to attend this time, my agenda being a bit uncertain > these days. > > Thx, > > -- > Eric > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Christopher Schmidt > <crschm...@metacarta.com> wrote: > > In order to finalize what will not be going into the 2.8 release, I > > propose we have another meeting on April 1st, at the same time as > > before, if there are no serious conflicts: > > > > ?http://bit.ly/yeFwo > > ?Time: April 1st, 16:00 UTC > > > > It is my intention that after this meeting, no new non-regression bugs > > will be included in 2.8, and any bug that is unlikely to have a patch in > > trunk over the following 2-3 days will not be included in 2.8. This > > should allow us to plan for an RC1 on April 6th. > > > > I should note that it appears that London, and possibly other European > > countries, observe Daylight Savings Time starting this weekend, which > > may push this meeting one hour *later* than the previous one for you > > folks. > > > > If anyone has serious conflicts with this time, and has other > > suggestions, please try to have them in within the next 24 hours, and > > I'll try to come up with a plan that works as well as possible. I'm > > especially interested in anyone who currently has a ticket assigned to > > them > > ( > http://trac.openlayers.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=2.8+Release&order=priority&group=owner > ) > > being able to attend. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Best Regards, > > Christopher Schmidt > > OpenLayers 2.8 Release Manager > > _______________________________________________ > > Dev mailing list > > Dev@openlayers.org > > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:18:27 -0600 > From: Tim Schaub <tsch...@opengeo.org> > Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] maps with all "overlays" > To: openlayers <dev@openlayers.org> > Message-ID: <49cd5ec3.3070...@opengeo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey- > > I've put together a pretty simple patch [1] that allows a map to be > configured so that the lowest layer in the draw order is always treated > as the base layer. > > With this patch, if you configure your map with allOverlays: true and > configure every layer with isBaseLayer: false, you can have a map with > any number (including zero) of layers visible or invisible. > > The patch is marked for commit, and I'm happy to commit it. If anybody > has any comments about *not* wanting this, please speak up. > > Tim > > [1] see http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2004 > > -- > Tim Schaub > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:22:36 -0700 > From: Schuyler Erle <schuy...@nocat.net> > Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Transition From Google's API to OL > To: Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> > Cc: "d...@openlayers" <dev@openlayers.org> > Message-ID: <20090328122236.ga3...@vishnu.tridity.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > * On 27-Mar-2009 at 1:44PM PDT, Stephen Woodbridge said: > > Another option might be to use OSM and Tilecache to cache a copy of > > the OSM tiles locally. > > I was going to recommend this option as well -- it has the advantage > that you won't need to deal with getting a whole bunch of vector data > and then figuring out how to render it, although it would require more > disk space than rendering vectors on the fly. I estimate that > rendering the US down to zoom level 16 would require about 130 million > tiles, or about 40 GB of cache. > > Arnie, if you're in Annapolis in June, you might be interested in > this: > > http://barcamp.org/CrisisCamp > > SDE > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:29:36 -0500 > From: Arnie Shore <asho...@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Transition From Google's API to OL > To: "d...@openlayers" <dev@openlayers.org> > Cc: Bob Austin <mandolinpic...@verizon.net> > Message-ID: <49ce3450.9030...@verizon.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hmmm. (I was hoping quietly to myself that nuth'n wd pan out, cuz if it > did - and it does - I got a heap of work staring right at me.) > > Taking a harder look at OSM than I'd taken earlier tells me that it > ain't half bad, given the kind of usage I'm addressing. I'd been > concerned that the folks out in South Succotash wd have little > available, but not so. I did a pair of test cases, and while OSM wont > get to the lowest zoom that GMaps does, I think that's quite live-able > with, with the added plus of local editing. > > I'd need to provide the kind of repository SDE notes, plus some > convenient tools - Tilecache sound right - to allow a user to collect > tiles for the areas of interest. And then there's the CAD application! > > Thanks, guys - you've helped a lot! I have a feasible direction now. > > AS > > PS re BarCamp: Yep, I'm in Annapolis in June. And July. And ... Will > look hard at that - first peek comes up positive. > > ~~~_/)~~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~~~_/)~ > > Schuyler Erle wrote: > > * On 27-Mar-2009 at 1:44PM PDT, Stephen Woodbridge said: > > > >> Another option might be to use OSM and Tilecache to cache a copy of > >> the OSM tiles locally. > >> > > > > I was going to recommend this option as well -- it has the advantage > > that you won't need to deal with getting a whole bunch of vector data > > and then figuring out how to render it, although it would require more > > disk space than rendering vectors on the fly. I estimate that > > rendering the US down to zoom level 16 would require about 130 million > > tiles, or about 40 GB of cache. > > > > Arnie, if you're in Annapolis in June, you might be interested in > > this: > > > > http://barcamp.org/CrisisCamp > > > > SDE > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > End of Dev Digest, Vol 30, Issue 43 > *********************************** >
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