[Mapserver-users] More beginner questions

[Steve Lime]

Stephen Lime
Data & Applications Manager

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> dpons at adinet.com.uy 02/24/03 02:00PM >>>
> First of all, congratulations to the developers, mapserver is a very
> fast and solid product (I tried geotools before).

> I have some questions:

> 1) whether I use GET or POST, too much information exists in the url
or
> resulting web page about the actual location in the server of
critical
> files, such as the map file. I consider this a security problem.
> Is there a mechanism to hide this (cookie, session id, etc)?

Yes, there are several. Search the archives for a full discussion and
check the WIKI for details of improvements in hiding that information in
3.7.

> 2) how soon will be available the JOIN feature with one-to-many
results?
> (mapserver 3.7.x)

Next week or so. At the moment I'm changing some underlying code to
store join results in the shapeObj instead of the joinObj so we can use
joins outside of queries.

> 3) what is faster for large data sets, postgis or shapefiles? 

Loaded question, depends. See 4).

> 4) Does tiling shapefiles improve speed for large data sets?

Dramatically if used correctly. By correctly I mean matching tiling
schemes to display scales...

> Thanks in advance...
> -- 
> Diego Pons <dpons at adinet.com.uy>
> Geotropos SRL

Steve