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?<div>
<div><br></div></div><div>- John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, thomas bonfort <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.bonfort@gmail.com">thomas.bonfort@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:08, Mr. Puneet Kishor <<a href="mailto:punk.kish@gmail.com">punk.kish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:<br>
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>> On 11-09-18 12:08 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:<br>
>>> I am using MapServer cgi with `mode=tile` with a Google Maps front-end, and am wondering what is a recommended tile cache server.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Any suggestions from personal experience?<br>
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>> MapServer MapCache of course! It is a fully featured, robust and fast tiling server. Only available in MapServer SVN trunk at the moment.<br>
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>> <a href="http://mapserver.org/trunk/mapcache/" target="_blank">http://mapserver.org/trunk/mapcache/</a><br>
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>> 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:<br>
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>> <a href="http://code.google.com/p/mod-geocache/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/mod-geocache/</a><br>
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> Very nice. I look forward to installing this; hopefully, it will be straightforward.<br>
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> A couple of questions --<br>
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> 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?<br>
</div>As already stated by Mike, there's quite a bit of geo related<br>
intermediary glue code that translates the incoming request into the<br>
actual name of the tile as stored on the system, which makes the<br>
module much more specific than the mod_*_cache existing modules.<br>
There is a memcached storage backend for mapcache, but speed of access<br>
to the tile data is not a use-case that it shines at: it is slower<br>
than disk based caches, but allows the automatic expiring of tiles<br>
based on their creation date.<br>
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> 2. Why wed this to Apache? By making it web-server agnostic, you open up the audience.<br>
</div>c.f. the fastcgi implementation. cgi is not a recommended setup.<br>
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> Puneet.<br>
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