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My organization has been testing using Mapserver as a WMS server to
serve up imagery. So far the results have been very encouraging, but we
want to do more testing before deploying this solution in a production
environment. You'll most likely have to optimize your imagery to obtain
maximum performance, which was easily done using the GDAL utilities
available in FWTools. There are also some considerations in how you set
up your map file that you'll need keep in mind, but overall I didn't
find it to be all that difficult once I read some of the documentation.
I've included some links below that were very helpful to me in getting
Mapserver set up to serve our imagery.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/optimizeraster">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/optimizeraster</a><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Roger Diercks
GIS Manager
County of Kankakee
189 East Court Street
Kankakee, IL 60901
Voice: (815) 937-2986
Fax: (815) 936-3358
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rdiercks@k3county.net">rdiercks@k3county.net</a> </pre>
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Intengu Technologies wrote:
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cite="mid:a1afa64b0804081446x50f7daap32b4f4ffb12ba2bc@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hello<br>
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I understand that most experts are saying it is far better not to load
images in a database but rather to serve them from a file based
system. There are two commercial products that I know of ER Mapper -
Image Web Server and ArcGIS Image Server what OSS products provide
comparable functionalities. If these are available are there any bench
mark studies done and also I would like to integrate such products with
ArcGIS Server.<br clear="all">
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Sindile Bidla
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