TILECACHE

TileCache is an implementation of a WMS-C (about) compliant server made available under the BSD license by MetaCarta. (Also, TileCacheConfig)... TileCache provides a Python-based WMS-C/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... Rendering map imagery on the fly for every WMS request typically requires profound hardware resources to scale well, creating a barrier to entry for organizations wishing to offer WMS access to their data. We hope that creating simple-to-deploy solutions for caching map imagery will help to push forward the publication of geographic data via WMS servers, which will in turn..

Also known as: MetaCarta, MetaCarta Labs