[Qgis-developer] From QGIS --> QGIS Mapserver--> Openlayers and Back

[Noli Sicad]

On 6/11/11, Mayeul Kauffmann wrote:
> Noli Sicad wrote :
>> It seems Andreas Neumann has done QGIS Mapserver + Openlayers with
>> ExtJS for visualisation of data i.e pre-rendered vector layers.

Sorry, wrong chose of words. What I  meant, "prepare vector layers",
not a result of SQL queries from PostGIS / Spatialite Terminal on
Openlayer client.

http://www.gis.hsr.ch/wiki/PostGIS_Terminal

> Hi,
> I will let Andreas correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
> http://gis.uster.ch is not "pre-rendered vector layers" but rendered on
> the fly. The reason I believe so is that, if you try hard enough moving
> street names near the page border, you'll see that the labels are
> rendered on the fly.
> (still, technically I guess it might be possible to pre-render part of
> http://gis.uster.ch ).
>
> Sorry for the slightly trolling message ;-) Still the distinction
> matters in some cases, see this thread were I mention the same server:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.devel/22768

Noli