[mapserver-users] Feature select performance

[Chris Jackson]

Steve

The selection of layer data is done by a bounding box, though querying by
parameter values is just as slow.  The mapfile is directly calling up the
shapefile (I had just followed the P.Mapper examples of displaying/querying
shapefiles directly).  So probably the answers to those questions lie under
the hood of P.Mapper, which I assume is using the PHP mapscript.dll to do
the work.  Is the direct query to shapefile approach v.efficient for larger
datasets..?.  Ignoring the app I am using what is a good approach to large
feature datasets from a MapServer perspective?

Thanks
Chris



On 24 August 2010 14:27, Lime, Steve D (DNR) <Steve.Lime at state.mn.us> wrote:

> How is the selection done? How is the highlighting done? Those processes
> will really impact performance depending on how things are implemented.
>
> Steve
>
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> Subject: [mapserver-users] Feature select performance
>
> Hi all
>
> I have rigged up a webGIS app (P.Mapper framework) where one of the
> underlying datasets is a model grid (many thousand cells) in a shapefile.
>  The data displays nice and quick when just viewing, but if I allow the user
> to select say 5000 cells it is very (extremely) slow to redraw with the
> highlighted cells.  Doing the same task in a very old ArcGIS server web app
> was much quicker (admittedly the data was in SDE/MS SQL).  So my question is
> what is the best way to improve performance - would just transferring the
> shapefile to to say a MS SQL 2005 db with the MSSQLSPATIAL add-on be a good
> step or is there are better way to present the data in the Map file?
> Many thanks
> Chris
>
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