[Tiling] compact tile format anyone

[Mike]

Heres some stuff I saw recently - MBtiles uses sqlite

http://mapbox.com/documentation/mbtiles-file-format
<http://mapbox.com/documentation/mbtiles-file-format>
http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/oct/08/portable-map-tiles-format-released
<http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/oct/08/portable-map-tiles-format-released>
http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/430/mbtiles-a-bit-of-a-rant/
 <http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/430/mbtiles-a-bit-of-a-rant/>
http://mapbox.com/tools


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Gabriel Roldán <groldan at opengeo.org> wrote:

> Hey tilers,
>
> looks like for ArcGIS 10 ESRI came to the same conclusion than us at the
> break out meeting: that a "compact tiling format" that stores multiple
> tiles in a single file would be cool:
> <
> http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserver/10.0/help/arcgis_server_dotnet_help/index.html#/Inside_the_compact_cache_storage_format/00930000165z000000/
> >
> of course "The internal architecture of the bundle is not publicly
> documented by ESRI"
>
> But wouldn't it be nice if we defined our own thing collaboratively
> using this list as a communication board? Then tile blob stores could be
> used interchangeably by our projects?
>
> If interested, we could start thinking about this. Sounds like a nice
> new year project to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriel
> --
> Gabriel Roldan
> groldan at opengeo.org
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