[mapserver-users] tile server

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:08:13PM +0100, Milo van der Linden wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I recovered the post where I found how remote tiles from a WMS-C cache 
> are supported here:
> http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/Using_With_MapServer
> 
> Now, what I want to use this structure for is to get OpenStreetMap maps 
> served as layers in my mapserver. OpenStreetMap uses mapnik to serve the 
> tile layers, they are accessed in the form:
> 
> http://tile.openstreetmap.org/7/63/42.png
> 
> How would an xml file be set up to serve this as a layer?

You can't. OSM uses "Google" style tile indexes, OpenAerialMap has
support for "TMS" style tile indexes. GDAL only supports the latter. So
the answer is "patch GDAL".

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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