[Tilecache] Showing ESRI-data in with TileCache

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

See:

http://openlayers.org/pipermail/dev/2007-March/000484.html

Best regards,
Bart

Michael Östling schreef:
> Hi,
> I'm a ESRI-user that would like to try out this TileCache and OpenLayers.
> >From the demos I have seen they look very nice. I  have a question on how I
> should best "eat the elephant".
> I have right now a ArcGIS Server 9.2 application with a mapCache. It is
> built using a MXD-project with something like 200 layers in it. What is the
> best way to show this with openlayers?
>
> >From what i can understand some of the following ways could be possible:
>
> 1
> Convert the MXD-project to MapServers Map-file.
> Set up a MapServer project.
> Set up the MapServer project as WMS
> Set up TileCach on top of MapServer
> Connect OpenLayers to the Tilecache
>
> 2
> Configure ArcGIS Server to be a WMS-service. (of course an expensive
> solution, but just to show the possibility)
> Set up TileCache to read this WMS service
> Connect OpenLayers to the Tilecache
>
> 3
> Configure OpenLayers to read ArcGISServer MapCache.
> Perhaps not possible (yet)
>
> Are there other (better) ways that this could be done?
> These are amazing software but somewhat hard to understand.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>   


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