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

[thomas bonfort]

To be a bit more precise, everything *except* blank tile linking
should work on windows, but that code is already ifdef'd out for win32
and so should not pose any build problem.

--
thomas

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:41, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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