[Mapserver-users] please give me an advice on this !

[Vincent Schut]

Petur,

that depends on so many things you don't provide information about, that it 
really is impossible to answer your question now.
E.g. for performance of mapserver the spatial extent (1400 km) is not so much 
the issue, but for example things like the complexity of your shapes, how 
many layers / classes do you have (if you have these), how are your shapes 
organized, what is the size (in bytes, not in meters) of your data, what kind 
of requests will your users do, will they zoom in much or rather use a view 
of the entire extent, etc. etc.
Usually it is better to just start simple, and don't think about performance. 
Once you got things working, start improving the performance by using 
shapetrees, tiles, etc. You will be able to find quite some usefull 
information about several performance issues (there is no 'generic best way' 
to organize things, all depends on your data and your application) on the 
mapserver home/wiki pages and by searching the archives of this mailinglist ( 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wilma/mapserver-users ).

Hoping to have helped you a bit in the right direction...

Regards,
Vincent Schut.

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 13:19, Petur Kirke wrote:
> I want to make a Map Server application containing a map, that has a size
> of 1.400 kilometers square.
>
> We usually use Microstation, and we have the maps stored in many different
> files.
> Now I convert the files to shp.
>
> Now to my question:
> When I use Map Server is it possible to have the maps stored in many files,
> or would it be better to store this map with a size of 1.400 kilometers
> square in one single file ?
>
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