I'm sure lots of people are very interested in this topic. Very nice. I'm assuming at some point MapServer MapCache will be supported on the Windows platform. (IIRC, I do not believe mod-geocache is supported there.) Is that true and can the current trunk be built on Windows?
- John On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, thomas bonfort <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:08, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: > > > >> On 11-09-18 12:08 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: > >>> I am using MapServer cgi with `mode=tile` with a Google Maps front-end, > and am wondering what is a recommended tile cache server. > >>> > >>> Any suggestions from personal experience? > >>> > >> > >> MapServer MapCache of course! It is a fully featured, robust and fast > tiling server. Only available in MapServer SVN trunk at the moment. > >> > >> http://mapserver.org/trunk/mapcache/ > >> > >> It was formerly known as Mod-Geocache until a few weeks ago... the > website is in the process of being migrated to the above URL, but in the > meantime you can still reach the old site: > >> > >> http://code.google.com/p/mod-geocache/ > >> > > > > > > Very nice. I look forward to installing this; hopefully, it will be > straightforward. > > > > A couple of questions -- > > > > 1. I was looking at mod_cache (mod_disk_cache and mod_mem_cache) > yesterday and wondering if they could be used to cache the images. Is > mod_geocache inspired/based on those modules? > As already stated by Mike, there's quite a bit of geo related > intermediary glue code that translates the incoming request into the > actual name of the tile as stored on the system, which makes the > module much more specific than the mod_*_cache existing modules. > There is a memcached storage backend for mapcache, but speed of access > to the tile data is not a use-case that it shines at: it is slower > than disk based caches, but allows the automatic expiring of tiles > based on their creation date. > > > > > 2. Why wed this to Apache? By making it web-server agnostic, you open up > the audience. > c.f. the fastcgi implementation. cgi is not a recommended setup. > > -- > thomas > > > > > > > Puneet. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mapserver-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >
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