[Qgis-developer] WMS tileset support

Noli Sicad nsicad at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 22:02:40 EDT 2010


Hi Jeremy,

I think GeoStack has this function - Map tile server

"The “geostack” consists of the following functional parts:
..
..

Map tile server that can store pre-rendered map tiles and serve them
up quickly to make maps seems to draw faster. Examples include ArcGIS
Server, MapGuide, Tilecache, GeoWebCache"

http://workshops.opengeo.org/stack-intro/introduction.html

Noli

On 7/17/10, Jeremy Palmer <JPalmer at linz.govt.nz> wrote:
> I'm trialling the use of Geoserver for serving up images to QGIS clients. I
> can get WMS to work well. However I was wondering about the QGIS support for
> tile sets. As far as I can see in the QGIS WMS proveder source code, tile
> sets are supported if there is a VendorSpecificCapabilities/TileSet tag in
> the get capability request.
>
> Does any know if you can get Geoserver (or any other open source web mapping
> service) to provider this capability?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy Palmer
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