[mapserver-users] Base map data for WMS

[thomas bonfort]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 16:00, Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:16 AM, thomas bonfort
> <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataUbuntu you
>> have detailed instructions for how to setup mapserver as a wms server
>> for openstreetmap imagery.
>> As the basemap rendering isn't specially light on server ressources I
>> would recommend using a tile cache and not expose the wms service
>> directly. Mapcache can assemble the cached tiles to serve complete wms
>> getmap requests should some of your clients not support tiled requests
>> (see http://www2.terriscope.fr/geocache/demo/wms for a possible
>> rendering style, you can select the "singletile" layer for untiled
>> getmap requests).
>
> for keeping things even much easier, and without the need to create a
> dedicated GIS infrastructure, I think Reinoud could just start caching
> the OSM service (for example with MapProxy, MapCache, GeoWebCache,
> TileCache, there is a wide choice).
> This should be compatible with the OSM license AFAIK.

One of the mentioned constraints was offline usage...

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