Hi mapserver users, (reposting here as I messed up the mapserver-users email address, you should imagine I should know it has changed by now :) - please respond to til...@lists.osgeo.org so as not to pollute this list)
Having followed the tiling sessions at Barcelona, it seemed to me like a good idea to explore having a tiling backend directly as an apache module (i.e directly implemented in C). I have a preliminary implementation hosted at http://code.google.com/p/mod-geocache/, that currently supports WMS requests (as a client and server), metatiling and dynamic tile merging. The architecture is very much inspired by the tilecache code. the aims of the project are: * keep performance in mind at all times * simplify server deployment, not having to install and configure python/mod_python/... * support wms backends, and offer frontends for wms, wmts and tms * enable (by configuration) the proxying or rescaling of requests that cannot be directly served from cache * various image optimisations (watermarking, quantization, ...) a preliminary benchmark againt tilecache can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/mod-geocache/wiki/PreliminaryBenchmark I would be happy to discuss on the subject with any folks or organisations willing to contribute or ready to fund ongoing development. Best regards, Thomas Bonfort Terriscope EURL, Toulouse, France _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
