Have a look at 1) TileCache, http://www.tilecache.org
2) gdal2tiles: http://www.gdal.org/gdal2tiles.html Best regards, Bart On Dec 18, 2007 8:23 PM, Kirk Holbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a cached base map from a large geographic area. > > The base map file on my MapServer contains about 100 GeoTIFFs of aorund > 1GB each. And will be containing more in the near future. > > I want to tile the map at several scales for improving performance > (although probably NOT at all scales!). > > It seems to me that using the Google Maps tiling scheme may be the best > thing for long-term compatibility (who knows how I may want to use these > later on). > > Does anyone have some code to slice and dice from MapServer to a local > or server cache? I've seen bits and pieces scattered around, including > tools to match up the maps, but most seem geared at smaller map sets. It > would seem that Google Maps has an established Lat/Lon to x/y values for > their tiles and that a tool like that would not be necessary coming from > MapServer. > > Thanks a lot, > Kirk >
