[Tilecache] whether to use tilecache to serve tiles

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:16:01PM +0000, Graham Carlyle wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 06:48 -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > Sure, but doesn't that mean you would want to change the *s3* cache, not
> > the Disk Cache? Not sure I understand why you'd want to write the files
> > out to disk with tilecache then copy them to s3 (though maybe the
> > tilecache s3 store is 'broken' badly enough that this is significantly
> > cheaper, I dunno.)
> 
> sorry I confused the issue by mentioning s3. I was implying that you
> might also want to save the tile images on s3 uses a TMS compliant
> "filestructure". Does the current s3 cache implementation save the files
> in the same "filestructure" as the disk cache, and so an openlayers
> tilecache layer could refer to it directly?

Nope. I didn't knwo if S3 would allow you to put "/" in your key names,
so they're things like basic_12_0_38 or what not. Probably easy to
change.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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