<div>Hi Jukka,</div>
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<div>Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. No I haven't tried this. How is this done and what is the benefit? Aren't Shape files already indexed?</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Jon-Paul.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Rahkonen Jukka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jukka.Rahkonen@mmmtike.fi">Jukka.Rahkonen@mmmtike.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi,<br><br>No answers but a question back. Have you created spatial index (.qix) for your shapefiles with shptree?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>-Jukka Rahkonen-<br></font>
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<div class="h5"><br>Jon-Paul Dobson wrote:<br><br>> Hi,<br><br><br><br>> Whenever I display a layer based on a Shape file I notice that the Shape<br>file is accessed constantly. This makes rendering extremely slow when<br>
compared to, for example, ESRI ArcIMS which appears to cache the Shape file.<br>Is there an equivalent caching mechanism for Map Server? ArcIMS seems to<br>render an order of magnitude faster when the number of symbols runs into the<br>
1000s<br><br><br><br>> Similarly, whenever I display layer symbols using a truetype font I notice<br>that the .ttf file is accessed for every symbol. This makes rendering<br>appallingly slow. Is there also any caching mechanism to prevent this?<br>
<br><br><br>> Any insight anyone can give would be much appreciated.<br><br><br>Best regards,<br>Jon-Paul.<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>