[OpenLayers-Users] best way to show many static points

[Mike Ryan]

Yep, it all helps. Just trying to get an understanding of what our 
options are. M

On 10/9/2012 4:39 PM, Tobias Reinicke wrote:
> Yes, it's a deployed thing. Although it does only have quite a 
> lightweight footprint.
>
> Thinking outside the box, as it were and forgive the pun, this is a 
> far stretch - I know google enterprise allows you to upload data and 
> feed it out as a wms (quite a new development - you'd need to be an 
> enterprise client). Possibly something like geocommons / giscloud may 
> allow you to upload data and do the same.
>
> Hope it helps..
>
> Toby
>
> On 9 October 2012 21:26, Mike Ryan <m.ryan6000 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:m.ryan6000 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     No, we have control. The "other" person is just my co-worker.
>
>     I believe our real stumbling block at the moment is that we're
>     using shared hosting. Typically, running/installing geoserver &
>     mapserver would require our our own (virtual) server, right?
>
>     Mike
>
>
>     On 10/9/2012 4:18 PM, Toby Reinicke wrote:
>>     Well there we go then. As Phil also says, mapserver is good too,
>>     although I have no experience with it. Trouble with both is that
>>     you need to have some control over the data. (I.e load it into a
>>     db).
>>     From what you have written it seems that this may be your
>>     stumbling block.
>>
>>     Toby
>>
>>     On 9 Oct 2012, at 21:12, Mike Ryan <m.ryan6000 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:m.ryan6000 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     Hmmm... the plot thickens. Geoserver. Don't know a thing about
>>>     it, yet.
>>>
>>>     I'm not actually creating the tiles, someone else is, using
>>>     TileMill and then, yes pulling in an XYZ Tile layer from MapBox.
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 10/9/2012 4:07 PM, Toby Reinicke wrote:
>>>>     Ah ok. Some more information on your setup would be of
>>>>     interest. How do you build your mapbox tiles? Do you have a WMs
>>>>     server running? For my sins I haven't used mapbox much, and I
>>>>     presume you're pulling them in as a Tile layer? Passing in
>>>>     x,y,z params?
>>>>
>>>>     If I had these reqs I'd use geoserver in a heartbeat.
>>>>
>>>>     Toby
>>>>
>>>>     On 9 Oct 2012, at 20:55, Mike Ryan <m.ryan6000 at gmail.com
>>>>     <mailto:m.ryan6000 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     The problem with tiles in my situation -- and someone jump in
>>>>>     here if this doesn't sound right -- is that they'd cover the
>>>>>     entire state of New York from low to high zoom levels, like 10
>>>>>     to 17. We've done this just fine for a small part of NYC using
>>>>>     MapBox, but it seems that to cover the entire state is cost
>>>>>     prohibitive because we'd require such a huge amount of storage.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Does that sound out of whack?
>>>>>
>>>>>     The next strategy is to use tiles at low zoom levels and then
>>>>>     switch over to loading points at the high levels.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I'll mess around w/ the single tile idea you mention.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>     On 10/9/2012 3:48 PM, Toby Reinicke wrote:
>>>>>>     Hey,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     So what's the problem with tiles? Server side stuff is your only choice really. Not going to load those points into a browser.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     If its tiles you don't like you can always call the openlayers layer as a single tile? Slow down the rendering a bit but will just create the one image...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Toby
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     On 9 Oct 2012, at 20:35, m1k3ry4n<mr at mry4n.net>  <mailto:mr at mry4n.net>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     I have a situation where I'm going to have hundreds of thousands of points,
>>>>>>>     and I'm wondering what the options are for displaying them other than using
>>>>>>>     Tiles. These points are static, I do not need to interact with them, move
>>>>>>>     them around, etc. Any thoughts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     PS: On a separate note, I'm posting this from Nabble. I've been trying to
>>>>>>>     send messages to the list for a month and the don't seem to be coming
>>>>>>>     through. Maybe it's a subtle hint. In any case, if anyone has any ideas on
>>>>>>>     what might be going on there, please let me know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Thanks!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Mike
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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