[Tilecache] Generate tiles from KML

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:35:29PM -0700, tamlyn wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm kinda new to TileCache and OpenLayers.
> 
> I need to display a zoomable map of the world showing countries and borders
> (but no more detail) with each country highlighted in a different colour
> according to a local database. The colour is unlikely to change very often
> but it will change.
> 
> I've got a KML of country borders which I can modify to appropriately colour
> the individual polygons but I need to render this into raster tiles for use
> with TileCache and OpenLayers. I've looked at Mapnik and GDAL2Tiles but
> neither seem to meet my needs. I'd rather not have to deal with ESRI
> Shapefiles as they require a separate library.
> 
> Any ideas? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

I'm not aware of any way to do this. I would make a shapefile, and use
MapServer with a Mapfile.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta