[OpenLayers-Users] Use of MBTIles with openlayers

[Greg Allensworth]

On 1/25/2012 4:18 AM, Robert Buckley wrote:
> Has anyone successfully used MBTiles to server
> basemaps in Openlayers? Do any live example exist if yes?

You need server-side software to open the MBTiles file and fetch the 
tiles. TileStache and TileStream are two popular servers for doing this.

TileStache is Python and I found it fairly easy to set up. It runs under 
Apache as CGI, mod_python, or WSGI. If you have an existing web server 
and web content, this is probably the easiest way to go.

TileStream is written in Node JS and takes a bit more setup. It does not 
run under Apache, but is its own server with its own service port and it 
has some behaviors regarding the hostname of incoming requests -- 
running it on port 80 with your other web content is not simple.

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