[OpenLayers-Users] trouble with WFS and Mapserver - Partially solved

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:42:57PM -0400, Burgholzer,Robert wrote:
> Hmm. It seems that every solution finds a new problem.  I managed to discern my trouble - it had to do with URL location.
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> I am testing my application and WFS server all on my local workstation.  The issue, after straightening out the baseLayer and projection trouble, came from the location of my script, where I was using a 172.16. notation to access it, and the location of the WFS server, which I was calling as "localhost".  Thus, a proxy, or consistent URL scheme was required.  I initally ran into the trouble because my script was freezing my browser, and blowing up memory requirements, so I tried "localhost" as my WFS location, and everything sped up, but of course, nothing appeared, because I would have needed a proxy setting.  But, the trouble really stemmed from the fact that my shapes are too complex, I suppose.  There are 250 shapes in my layer, and that is choking everything up.  They are relatively complicated county boundaries.  If I set "maxfeatures: 10" in my request, things go faster, and the shapes are rendered in about 30 seconds.  However, I really need to be able to see all of my shapes, and would like response times to be reasonable.  The WFS url request loads in less than 10 seconds, so, I would not want much more overhead above that.
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> Any suggestions?

Off the top of my head:

 * simplify()

or 

 * WMS

Regards,
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Christopher Schmidt
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