Difference between revisions of "WMS Tile Caching"

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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

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 == 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 the results can be cached on the server or at an intermediate location, or even completely pre-generated if necessary.
+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 ==