[mapserver-users] tile server

Milo van der Linden mlinden at zeelandnet.nl
Tue Mar 25 09:11:19 EDT 2008


Or (and this sounds more appealing to me)
Patch the OSM API to use TMS style tiles.

I have a local OSM server.

Christopher Schmidt schreef:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:08:13PM +0100, Milo van der Linden wrote:
>   
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I recovered the post where I found how remote tiles from a WMS-C cache 
>> are supported here:
>> http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/Using_With_MapServer
>>
>> Now, what I want to use this structure for is to get OpenStreetMap maps 
>> served as layers in my mapserver. OpenStreetMap uses mapnik to serve the 
>> tile layers, they are accessed in the form:
>>
>> http://tile.openstreetmap.org/7/63/42.png
>>
>> How would an xml file be set up to serve this as a layer?
>>     
>
> You can't. OSM uses "Google" style tile indexes, OpenAerialMap has
> support for "TMS" style tile indexes. GDAL only supports the latter. So
> the answer is "patch GDAL".
>
> Regards,
>   



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