[mapguide-users] OSS application to serve file based images

[Roger Diercks]

My organization has been testing using Mapserver as a WMS server to 
serve up imagery. So far the results have been very encouraging, but we 
want to do more testing before deploying this solution in a production 
environment. You'll most likely have to optimize your imagery to obtain 
maximum performance, which was easily done using the GDAL utilities 
available in FWTools. There are also some considerations in how you set 
up your map file that you'll need keep in mind, but overall I didn't 
find it to be all that difficult once I read some of the documentation. 
I've included some links below that were very helpful to me in getting 
Mapserver set up to serve our imagery.

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/optimizeraster


Roger Diercks
GIS Manager
County of Kankakee
189 East Court Street
Kankakee, IL 60901

Voice: (815) 937-2986
Fax:   (815) 936-3358
rdiercks at k3county.net 



Intengu Technologies wrote:
> Hello
>
> I understand that most experts are saying it is far better not to load 
> images in a database but rather to serve them from a file based 
> system.  There are two commercial products that I know of ER Mapper - 
> Image Web Server and ArcGIS Image Server what OSS products provide 
> comparable functionalities.  If these are available are there any 
> bench mark studies done and also I would like to integrate such 
> products with ArcGIS Server.
>
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