[Mapbender-users] .TIF files as a basemap?

["Jäger, Frank (KRZ)"]

Hi Milan


	From: MeLv1n wAuRaN [mailto:death_knight0911 at yahoo.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:01 PM
	Subject: RE: [Mapbender-users] .TIF files as a basemap?

	
	> .. i already have a mapserver 4 windows...so, do i still need to have a geoserver? 

Both will be able to supply a WebMapService.
Use your mapserver for WMS 
 ... until you need a transactional Web Feature Service (WFS-T) which is not supported by mapserver.
You will need WFS-T only for edit vectordata (write-access) via Mapbender-Client, but not for your TIFs and not for any other read-access.


>From what i read, mapserver is faster for shapefile ....
	
Please ask this on mapserver-userlist.
This list intend to discuss absout Mapbender-Client only.

(Also your TIF-question is more a mapserver- but not a mapbender-problem.) 


...
> the 50 tif-files ... forms a whole map. so i think they are sorted as tiles

So you can put a gdaltindex on top.
Then insert this index into the mapfile instead of 50 single Tif-Files.


Frank