[Maps-l] Caching proxy of tiles (hikebike)

[Stephan Knauss]

Hi Klaus,

On 14.01.2012 10:59, Klaus Bechtold wrote:
> Actually I have to decide, which caching proxy I take. Do you have any
> recommendations?
>
> I know these two:
> http://mapproxy.org/
> http://tilecache.org/

Is there the need to use WMS or to do reprojections?

If not it sounds simpler to use a regular proxy like squid.

Installation instructions in the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Proxy/squid

I think most interesting features might be rate limiting to the source 
servers so to not kill the toolserver rendering by too many requests.

Stephan