[Tilecache] MetaTile, MetaBuffer FOSS4G2010 Benchmarking

Fernando Ribeiro fernandinand at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 10:51:22 EDT 2011


Thanks for the concise explanation Oliver!

Regards

2011/6/7 Oliver Tonnhofer <olt at omniscale.de>

> 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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> http://mapproxy.org | https://bitbucket.org/olt | @oltonn
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Fernando Ribeiro
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