[Tilecache] Using Tilecache WMS from Win32 app

[David E. Reksten]

On 05/12/2007, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:03:49PM +0100, David E. Reksten wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. We've got Tilecache up and running smoothly
> > with Openlayers on Windows 2003 Server (Apache + mod_python), no
> > problem there.
> >
> > What we want is to access the Tilecache WMS from an application rather
> > than a browser.
>
> "An application" meaning "An existing application which uses WMS", or
> "an application" meaning "An application written in house?"

In this context, I was thinking of a Windows-based application written
in-house. Sorry for not being entirely clear on this.

> TileCache is a tile server *only*: it does not serve standard WMS
> requests. Any application wanting to connect to it must speak one of:
>   * WMS-C
>   * WorldWind
>   * TileService (very similar to WorldWind)
>   * TMS
>
> Nothing else will work.

I suspected as much. Do you know if there are any open source
libraries or code examples that demonstrates how to implement any of
these?

Regards,
David