<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Frank,<br><br>thanks for the reply, i already have a mapserver 4 windows...so, do i still need to have a geoserver? From what i read, mapserver is faster for shapefile data while the Geoserver is faster for Postgis and raster data. In this case, i only have raster data (50 satellite-image .TIF files and each of the .TIF file is 50+ mb in size) so what do you recommend me to use?<br><br>Quote: " Do you have 50 "independent" Tif-Files or are they sorted as tiles<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>(like the wall in your bathroom)? "<br><br>do you mean a single large Tif-file splitted into several Tif-files? well i tried loading all of <br>the 50 tif-files to the ArcMap and it forms a whole map. so i think they are sorted as tiles<br>just like the wall in the bathroom.<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 1/29/09, "Jäger, Frank (KRZ)"
<i><F.Jaeger@KRZ.DE></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: "Jäger, Frank (KRZ)" <F.Jaeger@KRZ.DE><br>Subject: RE: [Mapbender-users] .TIF files as a basemap?<br>To: "Mapbender User List" <mapbender_users@lists.osgeo.org><br>Cc: death_knight0911@yahoo.com<br>Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 4:31 PM<br><br><pre>Hi Milan,<br>Mapbender is a client for a service called WMS (Web Map Service).<br> <br>Your have to get a WMS from your TIF-Files at first.<br>This is a job for tools like UMN-Mapserver or Geoserver.<br>After setting up this WMS you can show it in Mapbender-Client.<br> <br> <br>Do you habe 50 "independent" Tif-Files or are they sorted as tiles<br>(like the wall in your bathroom)?<br> <br>Organize these tiles using tileindex-function from GDAL and you will get much<br>better performance then merging it to one big tif.<br>Also have a look on
gdaladdo-function to include a smaller<br>"overview"-map-version in every tif-file. <br>In smaller scale the WMS-Server has only to read the head of the tif-Files.<br> <br>> or do i have to use a shapefile?<br> <br>You cant get shape from tif.<br>tif is raster-data, shape is vector-Data.<br> <br>But the tile-index, organizing the tiles, looks like shape (.shp, .shx).<br> <br>Frank<br><br><br>________________________________<br><br>        From: mapbender_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org<br>[mailto:mapbender_users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of MeLv1n wAuRaN<br>        Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:13 AM<br>        To: mapbender_users@lists.osgeo.org<br>        Subject: [Mapbender-users] .TIF files as a basemap?<br>        <br>        <br>        hi all,<br>        <br>        first of all i'm still a newbie and this is my first time using mapbender<br>so i still need alot of advices from the experts. Ok, right now i'm building<br>a simple web gis for my project but I only have 50 .TIF images as my map.
My<br>question is, is it possible to use .TIF files as a basemap or do i have to use a<br>shapefile? If it is possible then, how can i merge all the 50 TIF files into a<br>single TIF file so that will be easier to manage. Thanks for your help.<br>        <br>        <br>        Forza Milan,<br>                <br><br><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>