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Case Study: Supporting Multiple Tile Clients

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The purpose of this chapter is to present specialized techniques for tile serving that will support a wide variety of mapping tools. We will build an interface for Google Earth using the Keyhole Markup Language (KML). We will also build an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) server.

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  1. de La Beaujardière, J.: Web Map Service Implementation Specification. Open Geospatial Consortium Specification pp. 06–042 (2006)

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Sample, J.T., Ioup, E. (2010). Case Study: Supporting Multiple Tile Clients. In: Tile-Based Geospatial Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7631-4_13

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