[mapserver-users] How to use tiles input

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello,

Your timing is impeccable: if you are wondering how to serve tiles 
through MapServer and MapCache and visible through OpenLayers3, 
yesterday I wrote a tutorial on specific steps, with example mapfiles 
and Javascript, for MS4W (Windows) users.  There is likely very useful 
files there for you, if you're the type of person (like me) who prefers 
to start with something that works and modify it for your own data. 
And, it's a wiki, so you can also add/modify the steps yourself :) 
http://www.ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MapCacheOpenLayers3

-jeff


-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/


On 2016-05-19 10:33 PM, jenia mtl wrote:
> 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.
>
>