[Mapserver-users] Max image size

Tyler Mitchell TMitchell at lignum.com
Tue Sep 23 09:21:39 PDT 2003





Thanks Ed, for the benefit of me and the list, can you reference a line
number or string to change.  I've been hunting but am finding that 1024
occurs quite a few times throughout the mapserver code ;)

Ed McNierney <ed at topozone.com> wrote on 09/22/2003 06:28:59 PM:

> Tyler -
>
> By default, MapServer is usually built with a maximum image size of 1024
by
> 1024.  This is to prevent your server from being abused when you're not
> looking <g>.  Many of us change it to a larger size, but you need to edit
> map.h and recompile to do that.  MapServer easily makes much larger
output
> files.
>
>      - Ed
>
> Ed McNierney
> TopoZone.com
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a maximum image size that I can use.  My app works fine with:
> >
> > SIZE 1024 768
> >
> > But not ...
> >
> > SIZE 2048 1024
> >
> > I should also say it's an RGB image.
> >
> > Without bombarding the list needlessly with my error messages, does
anyone
> > know off-hand whether or not MapServer, GD or GDAL has limitations in
image
> > size?
> >
> > (yes, I know that is quite large :)
> >
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>




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