If we accept Spherical Mercator tiles and the ZXY storage scheme as standard and still wish to use all the nice WMS servers we know, we can easily set up a middle tile server like this: For example, this request gets a OSM-like tile from a conventional Bavarian WMS server: http://lucasdom.homelinux.org:8077/services/smtile?baseurl=http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/ogc/getogc.cgi%3fREQUEST=GetMap%26SERVICE=WMS%26VERSION=1.1.1%26LAYERS=UK500,TK50&x=8711&y=5643&z=14 The advantage of this … Continue reading