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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>I have built a demo that uses SLDs to render WMS layers atop of
GoogleMaps in an OL app.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>See <a href="http://www.cubewerx.com.au/DemoDrapesOL.html"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>http://www.cubewerx.com.au/DemoDrapesOL.html</span></font></a></span></font></span><span
class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></span><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>This is as good as I can get it with <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>buffer:
1</span></b> and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>512 x 512 tile sizes</span></b>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>However, I would like to improve performance for the initial fetching of
the remote tiles <u>if possible</u>. I understand that this could quite
possibly be server-side issues associated with rendering on the fly and maybe
this is as good as I can expect. But I wondered what could be done at the
TileCache population level within OL? <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Does anyone know of any way to improve the fetch times? <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Is OL serialising the WMS tile requests? <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>If so is it possible to configure OL to launch off all the WMS tile
requests in parallel to overlap the seeks times? <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle20><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Cheers, <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>

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