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
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