[mapserver-users] Ed's Rules for the Best Raster Performance

Brent Fraser bfraser at geoanalytic.com
Mon Sep 15 16:16:17 EDT 2008


Jeff,

  Very good point (sometimes I get stuck on just one way of doing things).   As David Fawcett pointed out, I should add those comments to the doc.

Thanks!
Brent


Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Brent Fraser wrote:
>>
>> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> my quick comments:
>>>
>>> - adding overviews with GDAL's 'gdaladdo' utility is very important
>>
>> In some cases.  It depends on your data.  As Ed once posted, it may be 
>> a good idea to switch to external overviews and merge some of the 
>> files to limit the number of file-opens Mapserver must do when the 
>> view is zoomed way out.
> 
> I'm not here to argue with you, I am only pointing out the importance of 
> the utility, which you did not mention in your notes.
> 
> 


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