Posted on May 28, 2010, 8:29 am, by James Fee, under
GIS.
Is there anything harder than moving a tile cache from one computer to another? It is hard enough when you have fiber running between two servers, but when you think about copying it up to the cloud? Forget about it! So now you get a choice when creating your cache in ArcGIS Server 10 — [...]
Posted on January 10, 2009, 7:16 pm, by James Fee, under
GIS.
Looks like an interesting project. If TileCache has been trouble for you to get working right, PHPGeoTiles might be something to keep an eye on. Already there is support for the ArcGIS REST API to Google App Engine. Image used under Creative Commons from jereandreagan.
Posted on December 17, 2008, 10:05 am, by James Fee, under
GIS.
We’ve been loading our tile caches in Amazon S3 for quite some time now and it looks like others are trying to take advantage of the service. I’ve come to the conclusion that using S3 for your tile cache makes a ton of sense for performance and reliability issues. Our S3 tile caches are more [...]