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

[Mikel Maron]

I think it's a good idea to try and replace mapserver, if possible. 
I experimented with Ruby a few months ago, can't remember what or if there was a problem

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/ruby/api/wms/wms.rbx

Since then, landsat imagery is not accessed through a http proxy, but by making requests direct to squid,
so the proxy stuff must be removed first and replaced with a direct request to 

http://landsat.openstreetmap.org:3128/wms.cgi?request=GetMap&layers=modis,global_mosaic&srs=EPSG:4326

-Mikel

----- Original Message ----
From: Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
To: dev at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:59:37 PM
Subject: Easiest to ditch mapserver? (Re: [OSM-dev] Re: Transparency in osm.php and srtm.php)

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

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