[OpenLayers-Dev] Offline Tiles for OpenLayers -reading MbTiles offline in OpenLayers?

[Phil Scadden]

> Here's a link (below) on my discussion with the MbTiles, developer /
> owner of MapBox about MbTiles and Openlayers.
I had read it but as far as I can see it comes down to the same thing. 
If you want to use mbtiles somewhere there has to be code that reads the 
SpatialLite file and JS isnt the greatest platform for reading a complex 
binary file. Web browsers work strongly against you executing a binary 
on local machine from inside the browser for obvious reasons. If you can 
install effectively a tileserver on the local machine before running 
your app, then you could use that tileserver to do the job. The only 
alternative I can see is to code a mbtile reader in JS which doesnt 
sound a great idea to me.

And then again you  could convert your image to TMS tiles instead of 
mbtiles because its not hard to use TMS tiles offline. Yes bigger and 
cumbersome but possibly a lot faster than reading mbtile format in JS.

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