GeoWebCache 1.28-SNAPSHOT User Manual
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Concepts¶

This section explains some general concepts used when tiling, as well as special idioms used in GeoWebCache.

  • Tiles
    • Tile pyramid
  • Gridsets and Gridsubsets
    • From gridsets to tiles
  • Metatiles
    • What’s a metatile?
    • Why use metatiles?
    • Why not use metatiles?
    • Preventing double-metatiling
    • Configuring Metatiling
  • Storage components
  • Operations
    • Seeding
    • Reseeding
    • Truncating
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