Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

[Bob Basques]

 David,

Some stuff I've been involved with for the last few months (remember, you asked 
. . .):

   * Minnesota Structures Collaborative, has a web interface, a database and 
means to capture and store data via a web
 mapping interface.   Involved the creation of four state coverage layers 
compiled from various authors/agencies
 around the state.  Fire Stations, Hospitals, Police Stations and Schools
 o http://www.mngeo.state.mn.us/committee/emprep/structures/index.html
   * I've been working on a couple of OPERA 
(http://www.mnltap.umn.edu/About/Programs/OPERA/)
 o One for prototyping a portable field printing system for USNG Markers
   + 
http://www.mngeo.state.mn.us/committee/emprep/download/USNG/USNG_location_marker_proposal.html
   + Printing over bluetooth to a portable printer.
   + GPS capture of marker locations in the field as they are 
applied.
 o One for prototyping a low cost.AutoMated Vehicle Tracking system.
   + Auto tracking of vehicle/personnel location from phone, always 
on mapping, etc.
   + locally installed map GeoMoose map service on the phone.
 o Both projects are being built out using a Nokia N900 (linux) phone.
   + http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
 o The projects are in their final stages before writing the project 
reports.  There will be about a year
   testing process as well.  I'll post a link to the OPERA Grant 
reports once completed if you are interested.
 o These both involve the Phones running in a standalone mode when no 
network is available as well as being
   able to sync their data with a network connection to a master server 
for redistrubution to other similarly
   configured devices.
   + GeoMoose mapping stack on the phones, Apache, GeoMoose, 
MapServer
   + QRcode Generator on the phone, for generating QRcode (2d 
barcodes) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
 o The software stack is pretty much a carbon copy of a linux install 
except for some styling and configuration
   changes, and there is still some gesture programming to add to the 
Mapping (GeoMoose) interface, which can
   be implemented as a browser dependent CSS file.
 o The hardware has a lot of potential for other uses, since it's Linux 
based, and combined with a portable PC
   and or a larger control screen, the interfaces because they are all 
web based can be made to operate as
   closely as possible to each other, whether in a vehicle or out of it 
and one the move in walking mode.
   * The City of Saint Paul GISmo (public) https://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/ site 
has seen an explosion of data in the last
 year or so, and we're in the final stages of adding a 1920's vintage 
aerial photo dataset as a layer in our
 GeoMoose implementation https://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/
 o Internally we're serving up 216+ layers, all as WMS/WFS.
 o Externally we're serving up 35+ layers (with more to come in the 
near future), again all as WMS/WFS
 o We've had a lot of interest in development of derived layers, that 
use one or more existing layers in
   different ways.  One example was the need to see the Right-of way 
areas within the City.  This derived layer
   was created by subtracting the Parcel polygons, and water bodies and 
what was left was Right-of-way.  It's
   pointed out some error that we didn't know existed and has become a 
very popular layer very quickly.
 o Another such derived layer, was a layer that delineates the Railroad 
own lands, this data was only aviable
   in our Address database, since RailRoad addresses have their own 
classification in our addressing system, by
   combing this with the County parcels layer via the PIN, we were able 
to build out a layer that depicted the
   railroad ownership.  This has been another popular layer recently.
 o While these examples likely seem mundane to those folks that develop 
GIS systems, the piece that is exciting
   for us, is that the desire came from the web mapping interface users 
who specifically asked for these types
   of layers, and the fact that they wouldn't have come to this 
conclusion if not for the GIS systems existence
   in the first place.
 o We're also building out toolsets for importing most of out OGS 
datasets into an AutoCAD session, while we've
   done this for a number of years in the past, we're now able to read 
the data into AutoCAD as native AutoCAD
   features, including AutoCivil Objects, which we've recently moved 
some of our key desighers to using.
   * GeoMoose has seen Version 2.2 out the door and a bunch of little 
improvements and enhancements to come in the near
 future.
 o User based it steadily increasing.
  

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

[John Callahan]

You may be familiar with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National
Geologic Map Database (NGMDB) map portal.  I believe it was released last
fall (2009) and uses OpenLayers, kamap, WMS services. etc...  (not sure of
the mapping engine.)  It's a very dynamic system.

http://maps.ngmdb.us/dataviewer/


Here is some text from en email I received at the time it was released:

**
The development of a Web-mapping system to deliver compelling and  useful
images of geologic maps, and the data behind them, is a difficult task, as
you well know.  I'm pleased to notify you that the  NGMDB Data Portal,
collaboratively developed by AASG and USGS, is (finally) publicly available.

In the long-term, this Portal is intended to give users a quick,
integrated, browse-and-query "glimpse" of map data published by many
agencies, and to direct them to the source information.  Like the NGMDB Map
Catalog, it's another way for people to find your maps.  It helps people
find publications, but in a more visual way, and gives
them an overview of a region's geology

Portal features include:
-  National-scale bedrock and surficial maps, and four state-scale maps,
-  a Dynamic Legend that shows only the map units within the field of view,
-  a new Geologic Materials classification, designed to help the layman by
bringing these maps into a unified view, using simple terms and definitions,
-  a simplified back-end database whose design and science terminologies are
related to the new "NCGMP09" design,
-  integration with other NGMDB databases (Map Catalog and Geolex) that
provides users with information about the geologic units and source maps,
and
-  links to the source maps and related Web-mapping systems, in the state
geological surveys.
***


A similar international effort is ONE Geology.  I believe its map portal is
OpenLayers, the metadata catalog is GeoNetwork, etc...

http://www.onegeology.org/
http://portal.onegeology.org/


Hope this helps.

- John

**
John Callahan, Geographic Information Scientist
Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu
**


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) <
david.fawc...@state.mn.us> wrote:

> Thanks to the few of you who had comments.
>
> Really, none of the rest of you want to brag about or promote your OSGEO
> project?!
>
> Come on, any new features, optimizations, data formats, case studies, etc.?
>
> David.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Fawcett, David (MPCA)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:54 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?
>
> I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in
> OpenSource Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals.  This group is most
> familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness
> and interest in OpenSource.
>
> My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting
> events and improvements from the past year.  I am thinking of categories
> including software, databases, community, and open data.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy
> developments in OpenSource geospatial.  Think about new projects, new
> features, optimizations, events, use cases, etc.
>
> Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

[Daniel Ames]

Hi David. For what it's worth, MapWindow just passed the 300,000 download
mark, with 6,000 per month. Also the .NET world has an alternative to
ArcObjects now under development called DotSpatial. This project is being
developed by a large .NET team on codeplex and is quickly making progress. -
Dan

On Sep 1, 2010 3:09 PM, "Fawcett, David (MPCA)" 
wrote:
> Thanks to the few of you who had comments.
>
> Really, none of the rest of you want to brag about or promote your OSGEO
project?!
>
> Come on, any new features, optimizations, data formats, case studies,
etc.?
>
> David.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Fawcett, David (MPCA)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:54 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?
>
> I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in
OpenSource Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals. This group is most
familiar with the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness
and interest in OpenSource.
>
> My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting
events and improvements from the past year. I am thinking of categories
including software, databases, community, and open data.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy
developments in OpenSource geospatial. Think about new projects, new
features, optimizations, events, use cases, etc.
>
> Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] EU Guide on procurement of open source revised [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

fyi:

For those who keep tabs on these issues:

http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-guide-on-procurement-of-open-source-revised

Bruce 

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[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

Thanks to the few of you who had comments.  

Really, none of the rest of you want to brag about or promote your OSGEO 
project?!

Come on, any new features, optimizations, data formats, case studies, etc.?

David.

-Original Message-
From: Fawcett, David (MPCA) 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:54 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: New and Noteworthy in OS Geospatial?

I am working on a presentation focused on, "What's New and Cool in OpenSource 
Geospatial" for a group of GIS professionals.  This group is most familiar with 
the proprietary ESRI stack, but there is a growing awareness and interest in 
OpenSource.  

My goal is to introduce people to cool projects or features, highlighting 
events and improvements from the past year.  I am thinking of categories 
including software, databases, community, and open data.

I would greatly appreciate any ideas that people have on new or noteworthy 
developments in OpenSource geospatial.  Think about new projects, new features, 
optimizations, events, use cases, etc.

Please feel free to email me off-list or just respond to this message.

Thank you very much,

David Fawcett 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Sebastian E. Ovide]

I'm looking forward for it !

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
wrote:

> There is also a patch to mapserver that provides on the fly tile
> generations and serving tiles from a cache. This is slated to be integrated
> with mapserver 6.0.
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3513
>
> -Steve W
>
>
> On 9/1/2010 9:06 AM, John Callahan wrote:
>
>> I was also just looking into tile caching options and had exactly the
>> same question.  It looks like the latest version (2.10) was released
>> back in Jan 2009, and the readme is dated Dec 2007.  It would also need
>> to update the use of mod_python, which I read development had stopped a
>> while ago.
>>
>> I know of GeoWebCache, which can also work directly with WMS.  And
>> packages like Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles/MapTiler can preprocess your data
>> into tiles. Great for overlays.  Are there other tiling mechanisms to
>> consider?
>>
>> - John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bart van den Eijnden > > wrote:
>>
>>Sure, it has moved to OsGeo infrastructure.
>>
>>*http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/*
>>*
>>*
>>*Best regards,*
>>*Bart*
>>*
>>*
>>--
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>>out http://www.osgis.nl/support.html
>>
>>Bart van den Eijnden
>>OSGIS
>>bart...@osgis.nl 
>>
>>
>>On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>>from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to
>>>see mails up to April.
>>>
>>>Is TileCache project alive ?
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>
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>>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Arne Kepp]

 On 9/1/10 3:24 PM, Steven Ottens wrote:

I'm also interested in new developments in tiling.
I found that both TileCache and GeoWebCache are lacking in their capabilities 
to handle and manage (selective pretiling, deleting, handling empty-tiles) vast 
amounts of tilesets or more 'enterprise' oriented functions like statistics and 
being able to distribute the tiles over redundant servers.


Securing funding for these things proved to be quite difficult. I've 
recently started looking into this again (and a big cleanup), but it's 
vaporware at this point.


That said, GWC has something called request filters, which were written 
to support datasets with sparse coverage. The included implementations 
use 1 bit rasters generated directly by the WMS, or pregenerated files 
from disk. It's not well documented, but you can find it in the 
configuration schema docs. A request filter based on shapefiles was also 
submitted to the list two days ago.


If a BoF session happens I'd be very interested in a summary, 
unfortunately I'm not able to attend this year.

-Arne
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Chris Holmes]

GeoWebCache supports some basic statistics, see like
http://maps.opengeo.org:9090/geowebcache/home

Better statistics should move forward as we just got a monitoring framework
in GeoServer, see http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Monitoring  We'll start
with also monitoring GWC requests, and it shouldn't be too hard to also port
that to standalone.  Should be able to cluster that as well, to gather stats
in to one database.

I think we've done some work distributing tiles over redundant servers, but
didn't build anything specific in GWC for it.  Would be interested to hear
on that list or add to the roadmap exactly how you'd like that to work.

The other recent GWC work has been to be more transaction aware, using Etags
to keep clients more up to date, and subscribing to GeoRSS feeds or direct
to GeoServer transactions.  Oh, and Gabriel also recently added LFU and LRU
caching, so you can just set your max cache size and GWC will delete the
least frequently used if it hits that limit.  Hrm, looks like both of those
need more documentation though.

But I think both TileCache, GeoWebCache and others are open to going to the
next level of tile management, just need contributors or funders.

C

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Steven Ottens  wrote:

> I'm also interested in new developments in tiling.
> I found that both TileCache and GeoWebCache are lacking in their
> capabilities to handle and manage (selective pretiling, deleting, handling
> empty-tiles) vast amounts of tilesets or more 'enterprise' oriented
> functions like statistics and being able to distribute the tiles over
> redundant servers.
> GWC does have several things in its roadmap:
> http://geowebcache.org/trac/wiki/roadmap but development seems pretty much
> non-existent since the last release (although it seems to pick up again).
>
> Since tiling is becoming more accepted by dataproviders I think it is time
> to work on next level tile management
>
> Steven
>
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 3:06 PM, John Callahan wrote:
>
> > I was also just looking into tile caching options and had exactly the
> same question.  It looks like the latest version (2.10) was released back in
> Jan 2009, and the readme is dated Dec 2007.  It would also need to update
> the use of mod_python, which I read development had stopped a while ago.
> >
> > I know of GeoWebCache, which can also work directly with WMS.  And
> packages like Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles/MapTiler can preprocess your data into
> tiles. Great for overlays.  Are there other tiling mechanisms to consider?
> >
> > - John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bart van den Eijnden 
> wrote:
> > Sure, it has moved to OsGeo infrastructure.
> >
> > http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
> >
> > --
> > Looking for flexible support on OpenLayers or GeoExt? Please check out
> http://www.osgis.nl/support.html
> >
> > Bart van den Eijnden
> > OSGIS
> > bart...@osgis.nl
> >
> > On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>
> >> from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to see
> mails up to April.
> >>
> >> Is TileCache project alive ?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sebastian E. Ovide
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Steven Ottens]

On Sep 1, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:

> On 01.09.2010, at 15:24, Steven Ottens wrote:
> 
>> I'm also interested in new developments in tiling.
>> I found that both TileCache and GeoWebCache are lacking in their 
>> capabilities to handle and manage (selective pretiling, deleting, handling 
>> empty-tiles) vast amounts of tilesets or more 'enterprise' oriented 
>> functions like statistics and being able to distribute the tiles over 
>> redundant servers. 
> 
> I can only speak for MapProxy and it does support selective pretiling 
> (seeding polygon areas, that is) and it supports empty/single color tiles 
> with symbolic links.

Interesting :)

> It is also possible to cascade MapProxy, but there is no enterprisey SOAP 
> interface for that :)
> 
> But I have to agree with you, there is still lots of room for improvements on 
> the tool side. Maybe it is time for a tiling BOF at the FOSS4G?

I'm speaking right after you on my first attempt for a tilemanagement tool 
(TileSeeder http://code.google.com/p/tileseeder/ a bit more alpha than I hoped 
by now though) and after me Till Adams compares mapproxy, tilecache and 
geowebcache. That should give a reasonable crowd who might be interested in 
such a BoF :)

Steven
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:06:42AM -0400, John Callahan wrote:
> I was also just looking into tile caching options and had exactly the same
> question.  It looks like the latest version (2.10) was released back in Jan
> 2009, and the readme is dated Dec 2007.  It would also need to update the
> use of mod_python, which I read development had stopped a while ago.

I'm not sure why the fact that the software hasn't been released since 
18 months ago makes it dead. There have not been any bugs reported that
neccesitate a new release, so far as I'm aware. (If you're aware of one,
you can feel free to bring it to the mailing list.)

WSGI support was available since 1.4 or so, so if you'd like to use 
mod_wsgi with TileCache, you can. I still use mod_python, and no one
has offered a significant patch to the documentation to improve the 
documentation for various mechanisms.

While TileCache may be a somewhat idle project, it's far from dead: I am
actively maintaining the community resources, and handling questions to the
mailing list in the same way that I always have. 

TileCache is simple, and easy to set up. It is used to serve literally
millions of tiles every day by at least dozens of deployments (my guess
is that it's more like hundreds). It doesn't solve every problem for
every user, but it provides a simple framework and has been extended and
abused for many many things, and I don't see that changing any time
soon. 

Regards,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

There is also a patch to mapserver that provides on the fly tile 
generations and serving tiles from a cache. This is slated to be 
integrated with mapserver 6.0.


http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3513

-Steve W

On 9/1/2010 9:06 AM, John Callahan wrote:

I was also just looking into tile caching options and had exactly the
same question.  It looks like the latest version (2.10) was released
back in Jan 2009, and the readme is dated Dec 2007.  It would also need
to update the use of mod_python, which I read development had stopped a
while ago.

I know of GeoWebCache, which can also work directly with WMS.  And
packages like Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles/MapTiler can preprocess your data
into tiles. Great for overlays.  Are there other tiling mechanisms to
consider?

- John




On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bart van den Eijnden mailto:bart...@osgis.nl>> wrote:

Sure, it has moved to OsGeo infrastructure.

*http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/*
*
*
*Best regards,*
*Bart*
*
*
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OSGIS
bart...@osgis.nl 

On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:


Hi Guys,

from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to
see mails up to April.

Is TileCache project alive ?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

On 01.09.2010, at 15:24, Steven Ottens wrote:

> I'm also interested in new developments in tiling.
> I found that both TileCache and GeoWebCache are lacking in their capabilities 
> to handle and manage (selective pretiling, deleting, handling empty-tiles) 
> vast amounts of tilesets or more 'enterprise' oriented functions like 
> statistics and being able to distribute the tiles over redundant servers. 

I can only speak for MapProxy and it does support selective pretiling (seeding 
polygon areas, that is) and it supports empty/single color tiles with symbolic 
links.
It is also possible to cascade MapProxy, but there is no enterprisey SOAP 
interface for that :)

But I have to agree with you, there is still lots of room for improvements on 
the tool side. Maybe it is time for a tiling BOF at the FOSS4G?

Regards,
Oliver

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

On 01.09.2010, at 15:06, John Callahan wrote:
> I know of GeoWebCache, which can also work directly with WMS.  And packages 
> like Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles/MapTiler can preprocess your data into tiles. 
> Great for overlays.  Are there other tiling mechanisms to consider?  

Well, there is also MapProxy: http://mapproxy.org
I'm giving a presentation at the FOSS4G next week (wednesday, 9:00).

Regards,
Oliver

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Steven Ottens]

I'm also interested in new developments in tiling.
I found that both TileCache and GeoWebCache are lacking in their capabilities 
to handle and manage (selective pretiling, deleting, handling empty-tiles) vast 
amounts of tilesets or more 'enterprise' oriented functions like statistics and 
being able to distribute the tiles over redundant servers. 
GWC does have several things in its roadmap: 
http://geowebcache.org/trac/wiki/roadmap but development seems pretty much 
non-existent since the last release (although it seems to pick up again).

Since tiling is becoming more accepted by dataproviders I think it is time to 
work on next level tile management 

Steven

On Sep 1, 2010, at 3:06 PM, John Callahan wrote:

> I was also just looking into tile caching options and had exactly the same 
> question.  It looks like the latest version (2.10) was released back in Jan 
> 2009, and the readme is dated Dec 2007.  It would also need to update the use 
> of mod_python, which I read development had stopped a while ago.
> 
> I know of GeoWebCache, which can also work directly with WMS.  And packages 
> like Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles/MapTiler can preprocess your data into tiles. 
> Great for overlays.  Are there other tiling mechanisms to consider?  
> 
> - John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bart van den Eijnden  wrote:
> Sure, it has moved to OsGeo infrastructure.
> 
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
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> On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys,
>> 
>> from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to see mails 
>> up to April.
>> 
>> Is TileCache project alive ?
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 14:06, John Callahan  wrote:

> Great for overlays.  Are there other tiling mechanisms to consider?

tirex? very efficiently manages your resources.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[John Callahan]

I was also just looking into tile caching options and had exactly the same
question.  It looks like the latest version (2.10) was released back in Jan
2009, and the readme is dated Dec 2007.  It would also need to update the
use of mod_python, which I read development had stopped a while ago.

I know of GeoWebCache, which can also work directly with WMS.  And packages
like Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles/MapTiler can preprocess your data into tiles.
Great for overlays.  Are there other tiling mechanisms to consider?

- John




On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:

> Sure, it has moved to OsGeo infrastructure.
>
> *http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/*
> *
> *
> *Best regards,*
> *Bart*
> *
> *
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>
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to see
> mails up to April.
>
> Is TileCache project alive ?
>
> thanks
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Sure, it has moved to OsGeo infrastructure.

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/

Best regards,
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On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to see mails 
> up to April.
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> Is TileCache project alive ?
> 
> thanks
> 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] is TileCache alive ?

[Sebastian E. Ovide]

Hi Guys,

from http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/ it is possible to see mails
up to April.

Is TileCache project alive ?

thanks

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