<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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). </div><div>From what you have written it seems that this may be your stumbling block. </div><div><br></div><div>Toby<br><br>On 9 Oct 2012, at 21:12, Mike Ryan <<a href="mailto:m.ryan6000@gmail.com">m.ryan6000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Hmmm... the plot thickens. Geoserver. Don't know a thing about it,
yet. <br>
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I'm not actually creating the tiles, someone else is, using TileMill
and then, yes pulling in an XYZ Tile layer from MapBox.<br>
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<div>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
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<div>If I had these reqs I'd use geoserver in a heartbeat. </div>
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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.<br>
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Does that sound out of whack?<br>
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The next strategy is to use tiles at low zoom levels and then
switch over to loading points at the high levels.<br>
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I'll mess around w/ the single tile idea you mention.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">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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