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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">All,</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">We went through this same exercise a few years back, and in the end just opted for Jpegs in a pyramid tile set behind the scenes with MapServer as the assembly service. We had specific needs of being able to assemble seamless images from the aerials in any size and paid a lot of attention to dropping pixels vs adding them with Mapserver (one process is faster than the other).</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">This setup has been serving us well for years.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">GUI interface (public version) is here:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> </font><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><i><u><a href="http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/">http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/</a></u></i></font><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Try one of the default 5 layers in the Backgrounds folder.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Here is a direct link to one of them:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> </font><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><i><u><a href="http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/RASTER/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/AERIAL_CITIPIX/citipix_2001_public.map?mapext=572170.3096850861%20154364.2202090687%20574347.789661319%20157490.94035167122&mapsize=679%20975&mode=map">http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/RASTER/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/AERIAL_CITIPIX/citipix_2001_public.map?mapext=572170.3096850861%20154364.2202090687%20574347.789661319%20157490.94035167122&mapsize=679%20975&mode=map</a></u></i></font><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Our outside network is the slow part of the process. Internally, the last link above takes 918ms to load in a browser.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Here's a bigger one:</font> </p>
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<font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><i><u><a href="http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/RASTER/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/AERIAL_CITIPIX/citipix_2001_public.map?mapext=570924.4319667261%20154282.44445149295%20575593.667379679%20157572.71610924698&mapsize=1456%201026&mode=map">http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/RASTER/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/AERIAL_CITIPIX/citipix_2001_public.map?mapext=570924.4319667261%20154282.44445149295%20575593.667379679%20157572.71610924698&mapsize=1456%201026&mode=map</a></u></i></font><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">(1.56s)</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">and a still bigger one:</font> </p>
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<font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><i><u><a href="http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/RASTER/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/AERIAL_CITIPIX/citipix_2001_public.map?mapext=569231.1927510398%20153621.824605979%20577286.9065953654%20158233.33595476093&mapsize=2512%201438&mode=map">http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/RASTER/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/AERIAL_CITIPIX/citipix_2001_public.map?mapext=569231.1927510398%20153621.824605979%20577286.9065953654%20158233.33595476093&mapsize=2512%201438&mode=map</a></u></i></font><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">(4.56s)</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">I also have them in WMS if you like.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">What type of performance levels are you looking for? The above is running on some now outdated hardware as well.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">bobb</font> </p>
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