geoserver comes with geowebcache as a plugin ... so you could use geoserver itself or just use geowebcache as a caching layer<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Dege <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff.dege@korterra.com">jeff.dege@korterra.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">We’ve a number of WMS sites, serving a number of shapefiles via MapServer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Performance on the more complicated maps is adequate, at best.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Some years ago, we’d been using KaMap to provide a layer of caching over MapServer. KaMap is a php script that uses mapserver to generate tiles that are written to a disk cache, and it integrates with OpenLayers fairly well.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">But MapServer has moved on, in the last few years, and so has OpenLayers. KaMap hasn’t been updated since 2006. It doesn’t work with MapServer 5.6+ out-of-the-box, and before I spend much time trying to hack it into some shape that will work, I thought I’d ask:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">What other alternatives are there for serving shapefiles, that provide caching on the server side, that work well with OpenLayers on the client?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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