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Roadmap Items
Funded: GeoWebCache does a great job caching static datasets and these improvements help make it a more active cache.
Seeding is the process of pre-populating the cache with tiles. Currently a seed request can only take a bounding box. One improvement we could make is to let the seeder take a polygon, which can efficiently delimit the area of interest, saving significant time and bandwidth. Another improvement to be made is depth-first seeding, for cases when the center of the seed is of the most interest.
Respond to arbitrary zoom levels (WMS through tile recombination)
Funded: These improvements make GeoWebCache a more intelligent cache enabling it to serve most any WMS request, instead of being limited by a pre-set cache.
Right now a seeding process can easily overload a server, especially if it is in a live environment also responding to client requests. This could be improved in several ways to queue and prioritize requests so that the GeoWebCache seeder is smart enough to not overload the server.
Several improvements to GeoWebCache could be done to better support clustering for reliability and scalability. While traditional clustering techniques work there are several unique aspects of geospatial cache clustering which can be optimized for directly in the GeoWebCache codebase.