[Tilecache] WMS's with dimensions

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:01:58PM +0100, Pascoe, S (Stephen) wrote:
> We are making heavy use of WMS with multiple extra dimensions and would
> like to investigate using TileCache as a proxy.  Our WMS services have
> at least a TIME dimension, often an ELEVATION dimension and in one case
> a total of 5 dimensions with non-standard WMS parameter names.
>  
> From my brief experiments it looks like Tilecache completely ignores any
> dimension parameters sent to it before forwarding on the request to the
> proxied WMS, as I would have expected (please correct me if I'm wrong).
> However, it would seem relatively straight forward to extend Tilecache
> to handle dimensions defined in tilecache.cfg and cache each combination
> of dimensions separately.
>  
> Has anyone looked into this problem?  I may be able to commit some time
> within my current work to contributing a solution if there is interest
> in adding this feature to Tilecache.

See:

http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/2008-April/000956.html

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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