[mapguide-internals] FW: [mapguide-users] Serving Tiled Maps directly via apache

[Jason Birch]

For anyone not actively following the -users list, Zac has put together
a neat method of serving existing MapGuide tiles directly from the
webserver rather than going through MapGuide, including modifications to
Mike's OpenLayers MapGuide.js to support it.

This is something that I would love to see in the MapAgent at some
point, though security may require some thought.  For public tiles, this
is a great approach.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 03:02
To: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: [mapguide-users] Serving Tiled Maps directly via apache

I have added a page to the wiki explaining how to serve mapguide tiled
maps directly by Apache
and an updated Openlayers Mapguide.js which then can access the
exposed tile cache

I have gone into some more detail on my blog
http://zacster.blogspot.com/2008/07/serving-mapguide-tiles-via-apache.ht
ml

Sample tiles and directions
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/CodeSamples/Tiles/ServingTilesViaHtt
p

Thanks to Jason for the initial idea and for extending the php code to
use the API rather than
just redirecting to the mapagent.

This is useful as it adds cache headers to the tiles which means you
can use a proxy server to
reduce load on your mapguide server.

Don't expect to see much of a difference unless your server is under a
decent load, Mapguide is
pretty efficient

z