Easiest to ditch mapserver? (Re: [OSM-dev] Re: Transparency in osm.php and srtm.php)

[Raphaël Jacquot]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As an alternative to the transparency problem, might it be better just to 
> replace Mapserver with a lightweight script which takes in a bounding box 
> and list of layers and composits them? Even with 8-bit pngs this should be 
> possible as long as they have a transparent colour defined.
> 
> The URL could be something like:
> 
> tiles.php?BBOX=.....&layers=landsat,osm,srtm
> 
> Nick

strange, I'm working on such a solution in python :D