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

[John Callahan]

I'm sure lots of people are very interested in this topic.  Very nice.   I'm
assuming at some point MapServer MapCache will be supported on the Windows
platform.  (IIRC, I do not believe mod-geocache is supported there.)   Is
that true and can the current trunk be built on Windows?

- John





On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, thomas bonfort
<thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:08, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> >
> >> On 11-09-18 12:08 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
> >>> I am using MapServer cgi with `mode=tile` with a Google Maps front-end,
> and am wondering what is a recommended tile cache server.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions from personal experience?
> >>>
> >>
> >> MapServer MapCache of course! It is a fully featured, robust and fast
> tiling server. Only available in MapServer SVN trunk at the moment.
> >>
> >> http://mapserver.org/trunk/mapcache/
> >>
> >> It was formerly known as Mod-Geocache until a few weeks ago... the
> website is in the process of being migrated to the above URL, but in the
> meantime you can still reach the old site:
> >>
> >> http://code.google.com/p/mod-geocache/
> >>
> >
> >
> > Very nice. I look forward to installing this; hopefully, it will be
> straightforward.
> >
> > A couple of questions --
> >
> > 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?
> As already stated by Mike, there's quite a bit of geo related
> intermediary glue code that translates the incoming request into the
> actual name of the tile as stored on the system, which makes the
> module much more specific than the mod_*_cache existing modules.
> There is a memcached storage backend for mapcache, but speed of access
> to the tile data is not a use-case that it shines at: it is slower
> than disk based caches, but allows the automatic expiring of tiles
> based on their creation date.
>
> >
> > 2. Why wed this to Apache? By making it web-server agnostic, you open up
> the audience.
> c.f. the fastcgi implementation. cgi is not a recommended setup.
>
> --
> thomas
>
> >
> >
> > Puneet.
> >
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