Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
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Figure 3.
Distribution of requests along the different resolution levels for Cartociudad service.
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Distribution of requests along the different resolution levels for IDEE-Base service.
services implement the WMS-C, TMS and KML service interfaces. GeoWebCache and
MapProxy also offer the WMTS service from OGC. In addition, GeoWebCache can recombine
and resample tiles to answer arbitrary WMS requests, and can also be used to serve maps to
Google Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps.
All these services offer the possibility of storing map image tiles directly in the file system.
TileCache and GeoWebCache also support the MBTiles speficication
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for storing tiled map
data in a SQLite database for immediate use and for transfer. MapProxy supports the Apache
CouchDB
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, a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce
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http://mapbox.com/mbtiles-spec/
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http://couchdb.apache.org/
