[Tilecache] Showing ESRI-data in with TileCache

[Michael Östling]

John,
My final goal is to have an webapplication where I have a very fast static
backgound map like Google maps (but on my own server with my own data).
On top of this i will show dynamic information like train- and carpositions
in real-time. This dynamic layer i plan to render in SVG and it should be
updated every 15th second.  I'm currently working on a solution in ArcGIS
Server 9.2 but I would also like to test what the opensource-community has
to offer.

I'm still in a phase of "impressed but confused". As clients I'm looking
into OpenLayers and MapBuilder. On the serverside I'm looking on MapServer,
GeoServer combined with tileCache. The best combinations of all these are
though hard to see.  I will as you say install all of them and try out the
tutorials


/Michael


John Cole wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> 	It depends on what you want to try out, the speed of TileCache, the
> interface of OpenLayers, or the performance of MapServer.  OpenLayers does
> not require TileCache or MapServer, but can draw from several sources, and
> MapServer will work without OpenLayers.  You might want to evaluate them
> separately as well as together to understand just how each element
> compares
> to their ESRI counterparts and fully appreciate just how well the
> combination of all three exceeds it.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:tilecache-bounces at openlayers.org] On Behalf Of Michael Östling
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:21 PM
> To: tilecache at openlayers.org
> Subject: [Tilecache] Showing ESRI-data in with TileCache
> 
> 
> 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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