[OpenLayers-Users] Caching alternatives for Mapserver?

Alexandre Dube adube at mapgears.com
Mon Mar 7 15:21:47 EST 2011


Hi,

   You could pick any of the following :

http://code.google.com/p/mod-geocache/

http://tilecache.org/

http://mapproxy.org/


Regards,

Alexandre


On 11-03-07 03:17 PM, Jeff Dege wrote:
>
> We've a number of WMS sites, serving a number of shapefiles via MapServer.
>
> Performance on the more complicated maps is adequate, at best.
>
> Some years ago, we'd been using KaMap to provide a layer of caching 
> over MapServer.  KaMap is a php script that uses mapserver to generate 
> tiles that are written to a disk cache, and it integrates with 
> OpenLayers fairly well.
>
> But MapServer has moved on, in the last few years, and so has 
> OpenLayers.  KaMap hasn't been updated since 2006.  It doesn't work 
> with MapServer 5.6+ out-of-the-box, and before I spend much time 
> trying to hack it into some shape that will work, I thought I'd ask:
>
> What other alternatives are there for serving shapefiles, that provide 
> caching on the server side, that work well with OpenLayers on the client?
>
>
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Alexandre Dubé
Mapgears
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