[Tilecache] metaTiling problems wrapping the earth...

[Andrew Hughes]

Now that I've had sometime to think about this here goes...

Sure it would be nice for TileCache and the WMS to handle such 
circumstances... but it would be a significant amount of work.
Another solution is to use metaSize that are to the power of 2. Thus, 
1,2,4,8...... all metaTile to the grid without any "remainder" tiles 
that overlap past +/-180 or +/-90 degrees.

Im not sure what the default metaSize is? but so that TileCache works 
out the box with one less potential error.. can I make a suggestion that 
the default be one of these powers of 2.... I would suggest 4,4.... but 
you would also neeed to use a metaBuffer=0 as well. Maybe put this in 
the readme or at least on the wiki?

Hope this adds some value to TileCache....


--AH



Andrew Hughes wrote:
> Hi Again,
>
> I've noticed that, although tilecache is probably not the cause of the 
> problem here I'm encountering some problems with metaTiling....
>
> When requesting BBox = 90,-45,135,0
> The corresponding metaTile caclculated is BBox = 45.0,-90.0,*270*.0,90.0 
> (metaSize=5,5  metaBuffer=0)
>
> Anyway, the problem is that the WMS is not smart enough to wrapthe 
> coverage around to "270" degrees X.... Should TileCache not be composing 
> such BBox's?
>
> I'm know the answer is not particularly straight foward, and it gets 
> down to the fact that the metaSize then needs to divide into coverage... 
> some testing on the metaTile eta... but anyway it's more about if this 
> belongs in the project... or if the WMS should be expected to solve this 
> problem.
>
>
> --Cheers
>
>
>
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Regards,

*Andrew Hughes*
Software Engineer
LISAsoft Pty. Ltd. (Adelaide)

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