GeoWebCache Miss: request does not align to grid(s) 'EPSG27700'

Question

I'm using GeoServer - GeoWebCache with one layer group set to British National Grid (EPSG:27700). All layers within the group are the same projection - EPSG:27700

I've created a gridset for EPSG27700 and set the bounds to match the extent of my layer group.

I'm using OpenLayers 3 to fetch my layer using the following code:

var floodLayer = new ol.layer.Tile({
            extent: [96092.79481278273, 4921.6053531033685, 692596.2537952941, 665725.907765107],

            source: new ol.source.TileWMS({
                url: 'http://GEOSERVER/geoserver/Flood/wms',
                params: { workspace: 'Flood', layers: 'FloodRisk', tiled: true },
                serverType: 'geoserver',
                projection: 'EPSG:27700',

               )
            })

The extents above match the extents for the layer and the grid set. Hence the "Origin" should be the same - right??

So why do all my tile requests say "request does not align". The gridset is set to 256X256, I'm requesting 256x256.

What am I missing here?

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So after 1 week of trying to resolve this issue I have to say I am not much further forward. I've set the same extent on the layers, gridset and openlayers request. I've set the same set of resolutions that are used by the OS base layer on the cached gridset, and also set these resolutions on the Flood layer overlay. Everything is the same and should line up, but I'm still getting 95% cache misses with the occasional hit when zoomed in.

Answer 1

When you create the layer, on the Data tab, under the Bounding Boxes heading, you have two options for automatically creating the bounding boxes: 'Compute from data', and 'Compute from SRS bounds'. You want 'Compute from SRS bounds'.

If you do that, everything will work correctly after that.

Answer 2

I have had a very similar issue. The problem is not related to the UK bounds, but to the tile cache itself.

I have tried multiple times to set up a gridset for British national grid, but no luck so far. I have managed to get EPSG:900913 working without too much trouble, but have failed so far to create a UK grid set that works. The 'request does not align' error is caused by the get map extent bounds not matching one of the grid sets that you have to pre determine in the Gridsets page. Now I was hoping some one cleverer then me listed a Gridset some where for EPSG:27700 but so far no luck!

Answer 3

Ran into this same issue with EPSG:27700 and managed to get the requests to align by defining the SRS bounds as integers for both the gridset and layer. So use the default extents but round them to the nearest integer. Hope this helps someone.

Answer 4

I had a similar issue my data was in EPSG:27700. What worked for me (on Geoserver 2.15.2) was using a tile gridset based on copy of EPSG:900913. I needed vectortiles to use with mapbox and there are two gotchas here;

1. Tile size needes to be 512 x 512
2. You'll need to remove all the layers and add them back so it generates the right pixel size as below