Printing from a local tiled cache

[tchaddad]

Recently started thinking about this issue again: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Geomoose-users-Questions-about-printing-from-a-local-tiled-cache-td5080288.html.

It would be nice to be able to configure use of a local cache for fast viewing, and yet point to the source WMS for printing. I was thinking something like this would be how a mapbook entry could look (uses a real example cache and source wms):

 <map-source name="cz-poly@oca" type="xyz">
    <layer name="cz-poly@oca" status="on" />
    <url>http://www.coastalatlas.net/mapcache/gmaps/cz-poly/${z}/${x}/${y}.png</url>
    <param name="attribution" value="Oregon Coastal Management Program"/>
        <print-map-source name="cz-poly" type="wms" opacity="0.9">
            <url>http://www.coastalatlas.net/services/wms?</url>
            <layer name="cz-poly"/>
        </print-map-source>
</map-source>  

Just thought I would record it here as a future enhancement.

[tchaddad]

A better title for this would be "Specifying Tile Layer fall-back WMS for printing purposes".

[tchaddad]

One work around to this problem is to run all WMS requests through MapCache. Doing this, MapCache will serve the tiles for viewing, but call the source WMS for printing.

A bit extreme, but it works.

[theduckylittle]

Bumping this to future. :\ 2.8 has a lot of stuff in it already and we want to move to review.

[tchaddad]

Understood!