Can I use google app engine to work as a WMS or some sort of geoserver that I can use to connect openlayers?

Question

Has anybody ever heard or tried doing anything like this?

Answer 1

PHPGeoTiles (both for Local Storage and Google App Engine - GAE)

PHPGeoTiles is storing map tiles on your disk or Google App Engine's database, "BigTable". The difference of PHPGeoTiles is using Google App Engine to store tiles addition to disk storage.

http://www.geowebdeveloper.com/tag/google-app-engine/

http://www.geowebdeveloper.com/phpgeotiles/

Answer 2

gae-wms is a Web Map Service implementation for raster imagery, including a tile cache, for running on Google App Engine.

http://code.google.com/p/gae-wms/