On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 14:08 -0400, Alex Zendel wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> We are embarking on a kayaking trip in the area north east of Quebec
> City.  We will need some fairly detailed topo maps for a few small
> regions in that area once we arrive.  The Canadian Gov't provides a
> topo WMS service with great looking maps.  But we won't have an
> internet connection when we are driving around that area trying to
> find the destination rivers.  So this is what I'm thinking about
> doing:
> 
> 
> -Setting up GeoServer on my lap top
> -Adding the govt' external WMS server as an external WMS Server in
> GeoServer
> -Creating a tile seed using GeoWebCache (again, we only need a few
> small areas at maybe three zoom scales)
> 
> 
> Then I plan to take the laptop with me and fire up GeoServer in the
> car.  We won't have an internet connection at that point.  Then I'd
> like to view the cached tiles via the layer preview with the
> OpenLayers interface.  Is that possible?   Will the OpenLayers preview
> still display the cached tiles when I'm disconnected the external WMS?
> If not the preview, a seperate OpenLayers interface that points at the
> tiles?
yes, that's possible. The openlayers preview that you want is the gwc
one though (the one at /geoserver/gwc/demo), not geoserver's

cheers,
Gabriel
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
>  
> 
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