[mapserver-users] How to use tiles input

[Robert Sanson]

I don't see a reference to the "tiles" component on:

http://mapserver.org/introduction.html#anatomy-of-a-mapserver-application

Mapserver can take many forms of data as input (Shapefiles, rasters, other WMS etc). If you have many rasters as inputs, you can create a Shapefile index of their extents using gdaltindex utility, and reference this shapefile as the input layer.

Regards,

Robert

From: mapserver-users [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of jenia mtl
Sent: Friday, 20 May 2016 1:34 p.m.
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Subject: [mapserver-users] How to use tiles input

Hello.

Finally I subscribed and sent the message to the right group. Fewwww.

Here goes my question:

I have installed Mapserver on my arch machine

Reading the docs, I want to ask a quick question: why is the "tiles" component (Anatomy of a MapServer App) the input?
Isn't the tiles what this program outputs? Like isn't the output of this
program fed as input to OpenLayers or Leafet for example?


Also, where do I get the tiles? Is it OpenStreetMaps?

And finally, can the tiles be something I draw myself? And how do I organized them? For example, I might want to have 100 tiles that represent the earth at resolution 10. How do I name or generally organize the 100 tiles so that when I ask for the tile "POINT (73.45 45.00)" for example, it gets the correct file and so on?

Thanks in advance.
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