Google maps w/ satellite imagery

[Norman Vine]

Mark Dieterich writes:
>
> > Yes, we simply spawn shp2img on the same mapfile (with different EXTENT)
> > for each 300x300 tile.  Generating the whole map at once would surely
> > not be feasible--I'm currently working on a map that is, at the highest
> > zoom level, about one quarter of a terrapixel!  However, we have
>
> So it sounds like you are generating all of the tiles statically and
> then just serving those up via javascript?  Has anyone tried using
> mapserver to tile on the fly, i.e. use mapserver to generate image tiles
> at certain zoom levels based on feedback of the user searches.  Then
> store tiles in a server cache.  When users request a map, have the
> server check the server tile cache, before kicking off mapserver to
> create new tiles.

We do almost exactly this for osgPlanet the difference being that
the cache is maintained client side :-)

http://www.ossim.org/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=3

Norman