[Tilecache] Setting up a TMS Server

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon May 12 17:24:27 EDT 2008


> New to the list and have a question about Tilecache.  According to what I've
> read, I can use Tilecache as a TMS server, but I am unsure how.  I have
> looked at the examples and read the docs and nothing really sticks out.  I
> have generated a TMS structure of a test map (cartography that was converted
> to a regular jpg before I got it) using the gdal2tiles.py tool, but I am not
> sure how to plug them into Tilecache for use as a TMS server.  I think the
> most important question I have is what 'type' do I use in the config file.
> There doesn't seem to be one for TMS that I can see.  The docs don't detail
> all of the available config options and values.

Might be missing something, but isn't the TMS support just another URL
syntax for WMS tile requests?  Just configure the server as usual
(using an ImageLayer if you have an existing image), and use a TMS
client instead of a WMS client.

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