[Tilecache] Newb questions about Tilecache

[Soenke J. Peters]

Hi,

Christopher Schmidt schrieb:
>> 1) I'm under the impression that Tilecache will give me the ability to store
>> frequently called-for map tiles from one of these TMS sources in a disk
>> cache on our webserver, so that my application won't have to directly
>> request those same tiles again and again from that TMS source / server.
>> (And, hopefully, this would speed up performance somewhat too.)  Is that
>> correct?
> 
> Nope. TileCache will read from many datasources, but an existign TMS
> datasource is not one of them.

A TMS could be cached with "normal" http proxy servers like Squid, or
Apache with its proxy module.

Bye,
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