Hi:
<div><br></div><div>I hope this is the proper place to ask questions about Mapcache since it's been moved into the trunk of Mapserver.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if Mapcache can help with a particular setup, and if so maybe some advice or direction on where to start?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's the setup. Every 5 minutes a new set of GeoTiffs are created in a new directory. I create a tileindex for the GeoTiffs and use those in the map layer. Every hour, anything more than 5hours old gets deleted.</div>
<div>I have a single mapfile setup.</div><div><br></div><div>The general layer is setup like:</div><div><br></div><div><div> LAYER</div><div> NAME 'IMG1'</div><div> METADATA</div><div> 'wms_title' 'IMG 1'</div>
<div> 'wms_srs' 'EPSG:4326'</div><div> 'wms_extent' 'MINX MINY MAXX MAXY'</div><div> 'default_targetdate' ''</div><div>
'targetdate_validation_pattern' '^[0-9]{12}$'</div><div> END</div><div> STATUS ON</div><div> TILEINDEX '/PATH/TO/IMG/DIR/%targetdate%/TILEINDEX.shp'</div><div> TILEITEM 'Location'</div>
<div> TYPE RASTER</div><div> END</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm currently loading these images as overlays for Googlemaps. using the mode=tile&tilemode=gmaps...&targetdate=2011...etc.</div>
<div>Problem is it's too slow. I end up loading hundreds of images, as I basically create an animation using sequential times.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to be able to have a single mapcache config file, that will pass the date through to pull the proper shapefile, and have the result cached so next time it's loading off the disk. MOST of the images end up being blank/transparent tiles.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is Mapcache a good choice for this?</div><div>The front end for this is just a simple GoogleMaps viewport, but ends up loading multiple timeslots for display. It generates the request URL (not currently in WMS fashion but could be).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help I can get.</div><div><br></div><div>Jerl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>