WMS Tile Caching
Goal
The goal of a WMS Tile Caching proposal, perhaps WMS-C for short, is to find a way to optimize the generation of map imagery for transmission across the Internet. The proposal needs to offer ideally a single means by which map clients can fetch tiles from existing servers, in such a way that map tiles can be cached on the server, or at an intermediate location, or even be completely pre-generated, if desired. The proposal should leverage the existing investment in OGC-compliant WMS servers on the 'Net.
Proposal
Existing Tiling Schemes
- Mikel Maron's description of OnEarth's LandSat tiling scheme
- World Wind's tiling scheme PDF, wiki
Related Projects
- osgPlanet
- NASA WorldWind (wiki)
- Community MapBuilder
- other AJAX map clients, presumably
Interested Parties
- Schuyler Erle
- add yourself