<div>Thanks again, but I'm afraid, that won't work for me.</div><div><br></div><div>Each 3 of that total number of features are combined to form one "metafeature" which is selectable and modifiable. On selection further information is displayed. I don't see, how I would achieve that through an image of the features?!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe I just don't know the technology to "render" an image from the feature information on server side (geoserver?). Could you provide an example documentation or something on that? So I at least could have a deeper look in the theory.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind regards, </div><div>Andreas</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:24:48 -0400<br>
From: Alexandre Dub? <<a href="mailto:adube@mapgears.com">adube@mapgears.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Fastest way to create and frequently<br>
update ~1000 Features<br>
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Hi Andreas,<br>
<br>
What Phil meant is that you should switch to a WMS server returning<br>
an image to display your all your features, and if you need to query or<br>
manipulate them use WFS but only with a small number of features at a time.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
<br>
Alexandre<br>
<br>
<br>
On 12-09-26 06:33 AM, Andreas Schnieders wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> >> to those of you being experienced with large numbers of features: What<br>
> >> do you consider the fastest way to create something around 1000<br>
> >> features and update the every 5 - 60 seconds? Or is there even an<br>
> >> "official" best practice?<br>
> >Large no. of features and KML dont go well together in my opinion. I<br>
> >would strongly consider using WMS for image, WFS for any query. You<br>
> >might want to see how well your application fits WMS-T.<br>
><br>
> Thanks! But where exactly would be the benefit of switching from KML<br>
> to GML3 for example? GML is "just" another xml-structure OpenLayers<br>
> would have to evaluate...?<br>
> Or would you recommend switching to JSON-output for WFS? How would you<br>
> create the features on client-side in that case?<br>
><br>
> Kind regards,<br>
> Andreas</blockquote></div>