Combining layers into fewer tiles to reduce the number of Apache GETs

[Andre Lockhart]

We have a MapServer application that uses ESRI shapefiles. There is a
different shapefile for land, street, city name, railroads, parks, etc.
MapServer creates and overlays tiles/layers for each and decorates them
according to the mapfile.

 

The problem is that it requires over 200 GETs on the web server to pull all
these layers/tiles down to the client and render them. 

 

Since all these layers are static and never need to be toggled on/off, we
would like to ‘flatten’ them into one layer. This would reduce the number of
GETs by almost an order of magnitude.

 

Does anyone know how to do this while keeping the ‘decoration’ (like colors,
fonts, etc.) specified in the mapfile?

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

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         André Lockhart, President

         andre at CoValuate.com

         510.333.7189

 

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