[Tilecache] New to group

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Fri Feb 20 17:55:32 EST 2009


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 04:49:35PM -0600, Joe Hildreth wrote:
> 1) Can I use openlayers to read my generated tiles directly?

Yes.

> 2) Do I need to use Tilecache to get them to Open layers?

No.

> 3) How do I configure tilecache to use my tiles?

Generally speaking, you don't. You publish them on the web, and then
OPenLayers consumes them. See:

http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator#custom-tiles

TileCache is an alternative to generate_tiles.py, not something used in
addition to it, generally.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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