[Tilecache] A tilecache tutorial

Schuyler Erle sderle at metacarta.com
Tue Feb 27 14:05:34 EST 2007


* On 27-Feb-2007 at  2:00PM EST, Adrian Zhao said:
> 
> I know that after I installed TileCache in front of mine WMS server
> (e.g. GeoServer), I can send three tile requests, WMS, WorldWind and
> TMS. But how do I know which one to send in my web client?  If I send a
> GetMap Request to my WMS with TileCache, does TileCache smart enough to
> serve tiles as requested if it already cached or it generated tiles on
> the fly and then cached for future use. 

I'm not sure what the question is, but in TileCache a tile is a tile
is a tile. Doesn't matter if a tile was generated via TMS or WMS-C or
it was pre-cached -- if it is requested by any method, it will be
reused.

SDE



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