[OpenLayers-Users] NASA Worldwind Layer

Chris Holmes cholmes at openplans.org
Fri Jun 23 09:14:06 CDT 2006


How similar is their caching scheme to openlayers?  I'd really like to 
reach a tiling spec so that the tiles requested are the same, so that 
servers can do caching across different clients: just stick squid in 
front, or create just one set of tiles.

C

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> Some of you (including David Bitner ;)) may be aware of NASA WorldWind
> tile caches, a URL scheme saving pre-cached tiles at certain zoom
> levels. 
> 
> OpenLayers now has a Layer class to support these. You can see an
> example directly in SVN at
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/worldwind.html  -- the Bathy layer
> has a Level Zero Tile Size of 36, while landsat has a tile size of 2.25.
> 
> No layer specific hacks here: everything is defined in the constructor. 
> 
> This isn't fully tested + Ready for Release yet, but it is working, so I
> thought I'd get it out there so people could take a peek at it and play
> with it.
> 
> (Power of OpenLayers, wheee...)

-- 
Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org
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