[OSM-talk] Local WMS server?

[Alex S.]

Gervase Markham wrote:
> Is this true? If so, is there another option, like running my own local 
> WMS server? I don't know much about it, but my naive assumption is that 
> a personal WMS server would be a directory full of correctly-named 
> images, a copy of Apache and a fairly simple Perl script. Is that right?

You're looking for a "caching proxy web server".

Check out http://www.squid-cache.org/ and 
http://www.web-caching.com/proxy-caches.html