[Tilecache] SWF MapServer Tiles?

[Dario Diogo]

Thnks for the quick reply...

Personally I can't make any financial decisions for my department, 
but we were impressed with the software and would definitely like
to use it (and support it on our website.)

I took your advice and investigated the format() calls in the code 
and so far what I came up with is that if I specify the mime-type 
in the configuration file (which I'm already doing), it supersedes
the hardcoding of 'image/' (please correct me if this is wrong.) 
But anyway, this alone probably isn't enough. In our map 
configuration (using OUTPUT_MOVIE=MULTIPLE) Mapserver generates 
N + 1 SWFs for each request. N being the number of active layers, 
and the +1 bit, a master SWF that contains only a map object with 
data on the map extent and its layers (i.e. the other SWFs). 
Possibly, this isn't too hard to implement, only I never used 
python before so I'm reluctant to start it off on my own. But if you
point the way, maybe we can get something done, if you're interested.




Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:06:53PM -0000, Dário Diogo wrote:
>> I’ve been having some difficulties using tilecache with SWF output from a
>> mapserver mapfile.
>> 
>> My question is: Is it possible to get tiles from SWF output from
>> Mapserver
>> using tilecache? How can I do this?
> 
> Nope. TileCache is hardcoded to ask for image tiles. It would take a bit
> of work to get it to work, but it's not undoable: specifically, one
> would want to change some of the format() calls to not use hardcoded
> "image/" as a prefix. Is it important to you? (Do you want to throw
> money at the problem?)
> 
> 

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