Cache OpenLayers3 Tiles server side

Question

I'm developing a website that display a map using OpenLayers3 API. I know that most of requests will refer to a specific location so I'm wondering if it's possible to save server-side the Tiles of that region, in order to reduce calls to OpenStreetMap that sometimes is slow. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Yes, you can. There are several solutions

1. You can try dedicated software called more or less "map tiles proxy"

   • Mapproxy
   • Mapcache

2. You can reuse your existing web server

   You will tweak it for the intent of caching map tiles ( Nginx recipe , did not found one out of the box for Apache)

3. You can use what we call "reverse proxy" like Varnish. See a recipe for this.