[Tilecache] tlecache and ms4w

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Sat Mar 3 11:28:16 EST 2007


On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:19:38AM -0600, John Cole wrote:
> Christopher,
>   I was hoping that by using a MapServer layer, it would prevent some edge
> problems with some lines and markers getting cut off or not matching up;
> thicker lines that cross a tile edge at an angle tend to have chunks cut out
> of them, and markers that have images (in my case highway shields) get cut
> off when drawn near a tile edge.  It was my understanding that a MapServer
> layer would get cut up by TC after it was rendered by MS from a larger
> image.

What you're looking for is a 'metaTile=yes' option in your layer. This
works with MapServer or WMS. metaTiling creates larger tiles and chops
them up.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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