[OpenLayers-Users] Help with layers.

[Paul Spencer]

Yes.  You need to:

* find a source of data (in the case of the metacarta served tiles, it  
is vmap0 which is freely available),
* pick a way to render that data into maps (mapserver, mapnik,  
mapguide, geoserver, ...)
* set up the renderer to apply your cartography
* set up a way to turn rendered maps into tiles (tilecache) for  
performance or pick a package in the previous step that does WMS

Cheers

Paul

On 4-Jun-08, at 7:28 AM, Aparna Sriram wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a new user here and I'm looking for some help. I see that in the  
> examples, the map layers used are WMS [ from labs.metacarta.com ]/ 
> Google/Yahoo.
> I am wondering if the map tiles from maps.metacarta.com could be  
> served from our local server instead of being served from the  
> metacarta website.
> Also can anyone please suggest any other alternative map layer?
>
> Appreciate you help.
>
> Thanks
> Aparna
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