Architecture for Enterprise Backend

[Jelmer Baas]

Shoaib Burq wrote:

> I have a question which I am have difficulty putting in words but I'll
> try anyway...
> 
> Can anyone suggest how large data vendors organise their raster and
> vector data with the view of having the flexibility to update,
> reorganise, manage and search/query. How can this process be automated
> using the various OS GIS components (e.g. PostGIS, Mapserver, etc).
> Are data sets divide into categories. How does one deal with temporal
> variability over the same extents? Is their an ideal way of organising
> the data on disk? How should the various mapserver components like
> Mapfiles be organised internally and on disk? Understandably it could
> get very ugly as data increases.
> 
>>From my limited experience I am thinking of some categories like:

I hope I didn't understand your wrong, of course. But we currently have 
all the data in TAB files (static), but also in an Oracle database. Then 
you have all the performance and freedom you want.

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Jelmer