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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">JK,</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Think of MapServer as a Map rendering Engine.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Tile services can be consumed by a MapServer instance. MapServer can render a single tile from many smaller one, and/or request tiles from a tile collection or service to fill a Bound Box of interest for the user.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">MapServer can also reproject data from one coordinate system to another on the fly during the request process.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">OpenLayers (and other Clients, like GeoMoose, MapFish, etc,) act as a User client to make the requests of Mapserver for display.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">bobb</font> </p>
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Hi,<br><br>I'm not very clear about the concept of map server v.s. tile server. Can a<br>map server be used as a mip server? Is that a normal way of doing tile<br>server.<br><br>Here is what I have,<br><br>I have a collection of NATIF files that I need to serve them in a map client<br>(in OpenLayers, via WMS), sevring these cadrg files as base map. In other<br>words, these CADRG files together is  the base map. Clients will zoom, in<br>and out, pam, and so on.<br><br>How do I make a base map? Use Map Server? Use gdaltinex commnad? shpe file?<br>And, I need it to serve with WMS commands<br><br>Anyone please help with your idea.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>JK<br><br>--<br>View this message in context: <a href="http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/map-server-a-tile-server-tp6623555p6623555.html">http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/map-server-a-tile-server-tp6623555p6623555.html</a><br>Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br>mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a><br>
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