[Tilecache] Creating Tiles (TMS style) using tilecache and mapnik

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Joe Nunn wrote:
> Genius! I wish that was in the manual!

Patches welcome.

-- Chris

> Many thanks
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Wooster [mailto:andrew at planetaryscale.com] 
> Sent: 19 June 2009 09:47
> To: joe.nunn at usegis.co.uk
> Cc: tilecache at openlayers.org
> Subject: Re: [Tilecache] Creating Tiles (TMS style) using tilecache and
> mapnik
> 
> Did you try:
> 
> [cache]
> type=GoogleDisk
> 
> 
> ?
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:34 AM, Joe Nunn wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > I am attempting to create a cache of tiles using tilecache from a  
> > mapnik source.  I am using a shapefile as the source (it has to be  
> > this really as i have 100+ shapefiles to create separate caches for)  
> > and creating a mapnik xml file.  This is referenced from the  
> > tilecache.cfg file.  I am using an openlayers front end to access  
> > this and request the tile output.
> >
> > I have succeeded getting these tiles to be output but the file  
> > structure is not what i am after.  It does it in this format: 'cache/ 
> > 01/000/000/01/000/000/001.png' whereas I want the TMS/google style  
> > format  z/x/y.png
> >
> > I tried setting the config and openlayers map to output TMS but  
> > nothing is output.  I just get pink tiles.
> >
> > Is this possible?  If so how would I achieve this?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Joe Nunn
> > joe.nunn at usegis.co.uk
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