[Tilecache] MetaTile, MetaBuffer FOSS4G2010 Benchmarking

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi Fernando,

On 07.06.2011, at 16:19, Fernando Ribeiro wrote:
> I am currently analyzing some proxy cache solutions, namely TileCache, and recently came across with a nice benchmark document by Terrestris, presented @ FOSS4G2010.
> On that document it is said that TileCache can only generate MetaTiles/MetaBuffers in JPEG/GIF formats...or maybe I miss understood this point. I cannot find anything stating this bottleneck!
> 
> Can someone provide some explanation on this issue?

That got clarified during the presentation. TileCache supports meta tiles for PNG if you do not use interlaced PNGs. For Mapserver see http://mapserver.org/faq.html#why-doesn-t-pil-python-imaging-library-open-my-pngs


Regards,
Oliver

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