[Tiling] Steps towards a better filemanagement

[Steven M. Ottens]

  Hi List,

Last week I met Oliver Tonnhofer at FOSSGIS in Germany. We discussed the 
problems of tiling and especially tile-cache-management. My immediate 
problems are too many files to manage (for instance backups), updating 
of tiles, smart seeding (seeding the most popular regions first).
He said that he already had done some benchmarks on SQLite and it 
appears to be fast enough to serve tiles. So our idea is to use SQLite 
as a tilestore. Storing both the tiles and its metadata. Most likely 
using one database per tilecache-layer or maybe one database per 
tilecache-layer and zoomlevel.

Any thoughts from the crowd on this idea?

Steven