[mapserver-users] recommended tile caching mechanism with `mode=tile`

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

Mod_cache can cache images, but MapServer MapCache can respond to wms
requests, kml super overlay requests, wmts, gmap tile requests, bing map
tile requests, rebuild WMS images from tiles on the fly, etc. Its
incredibly powerful, easy to setup and configure and its fast. The seeding
utility is also very nice, allowing seeding inside an area from any OGR
dataset, multi threaded seeding, and an algorithm designed to be as high
performance as possible (it drills down in an area as it seeds to maximize
the caching of data in an area).

Mike

-- 
Michael Smith

US Army Corps
Remote Sensing GIS/Center



On 9/18/11 8:21 AM, "Daniel Morissette" <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:

>On 11-09-18 10:08 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
>>
>> 1. I was looking at mod_cache (mod_disk_cache and mod_mem_cache)
>>yesterday and wondering if they could be used to cache the images. Is
>>mod_geocache inspired/based on those modules?
>>
>
>I dunno. I will let Thomas answer this one.
>
>> 2. Why wed this to Apache? By making it web-server agnostic, you open
>>up the audience.
>>
>
>Because that is the fastest you can get (within 5-10% of the performance
>of serving static files).
>
>However, MapCache also "produces a CGI/fastCGI executable for using with
>other webservers than apache"[1]. You just won't get the same performance.
>
>[1] http://mapserver.org/trunk/mapcache/
>
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>Daniel Morissette
>http://www.mapgears.com/
>Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
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