[mapserver-dev] Adding a tiling backend, and want to use ImageMagick

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 1/10/2013 4:16 PM, Jeff Donner wrote:
> Hi;
>
>    I'm adding a tiling backend to MapServer, and I'd like to use
> ImageMagick (C bindings) for convenience. Would adding a largish
> library like that be ok among the maintainers (if my company lets me
> submit it), or is there a better way? The operations I want to do are
> placing tiles into a dest. image, cropping, and then resizing. Re:
> licences, ImageMagick is Apache 2.0, which at first blush it looks
> compatible with MapServer's MIT license. Any guidance / comments?

Here is an example of mapcache and mapserver serving up tiles from one 
of my servers using Tiger data:

http://imaptools.com:8080/demo/tiger-tiles.html?zoom=16&lat=40.76811&lon=-73.98177&layers=BT

-Steve