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TileCache 1.4 Released

posted by Satri on Wednesday February 07, @02:42PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the tiling-the-universe dept.

The OpenLayers mailing list announced the release of TileCache 1.4. From the announcement: "TileCache provides a Python-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends. In the simplest use case, TileCache requires only write access to a disk, the ability to run Python CGI scripts, and a WMS you want to be cached. With these resources, you can create your own local disk-based cache of any WMS server, and use the result in any WMS-C supporting client, like OpenLayers, or any TMS supporting client, like OpenLayers and worldKit." See also the OSGeo Tile Map Service specification.

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