WMS is great… when it works. But having all my maps go busted because a server outside of my control decides that it doesn’t want to work today (today, the MassGIS WMS server, yesterday, a TIGER/LINE source I was using) is really annoying.
Oh well. At least one of my two basemaps is up.
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A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
–Leslie Lamport, 1987
There are a couple connected efforts, slightly under the aegis of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, which directly address this issue.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WMS\_Tile\_Caching
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Distributed\_Tile\_Caching