[Geoserver-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOS-2741) Tilesorigin is confusing, key the meta tile cache by bbox only and do meta tiling with tiled=true alone

Tilesorigin is confusing, key the meta tile cache by bbox only and do meta tiling with tiled=true alone
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                 Key: GEOS-2741
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-2741
             Project: GeoServer
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 1.7.3
            Reporter: Andrea Aime
            Assignee: Andrea Aime
             Fix For: 1.7.4

People keep on getting confused by tilesorigin usage, only the map previous seems to be using it in a competent way.
So get rid of it. A way to cache the tiles is by pure bbox:
- if the cache does not contain the bbox (minus a small tolerance, say +/- 1%) create a new 3x3 metatile with the requested tile in the middle
- if other request hit a bbox of a tile inside a meta tile that is being computed, make them wait
- once computed, cache each tile separately

This way we should have a system that works with tiled=true only.

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