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

[thomas bonfort]

There are no known limitations in running on windows, as it is based
largely on the cross-platform apr library. That said, I have
absolutely no idea on how to build stuff on windows, and so the build
files will have to be contributed before things can start moving on
that platform.

regards,
--
thomas

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:52, John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu> wrote:
> 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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