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<DIV><SPAN class=163125015-21042008><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are making heavy
use of WMS with multiple extra dimensions and would like to investigate using
TileCache as a proxy. Our WMS services have at least a TIME dimension,
often an ELEVATION dimension and in one case a total of 5 dimensions with
non-standard WMS parameter names.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=163125015-21042008><FONT face=Arial size=2>From my brief
experiments it looks like Tilecache completely ignores any dimension parameters
sent to it before forwarding on the request to the proxied WMS, as I would have
expected (please correct me if I'm wrong). However, it would seem
relatively straight forward to extend Tilecache to handle dimensions
defined in tilecache.cfg and cache each combination of dimensions
separately.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=163125015-21042008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone looked
into this problem? I may be able to commit some time within my current
work to contributing a solution if there is interest in adding this feature to
Tilecache.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=163125015-21042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=163125015-21042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Stephen.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen Pascoe +44 (0)1235
445980</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>British Atmospheric Data
Centre</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory</FONT></DIV>
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