[mapserver-users] areas of high res

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Tue Feb 2 20:35:13 EST 2010


On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:34:05PM +0000, Wendell Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:23:01PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:10:40PM -0800, TC Haddad wrote:
> > > use two different tile indexes and use  MIN- and MAXSCALEDENOM to control
> > > when they are each used.
> 
> Is that done by listing the higher res layer items after the
> lower res itesm in the arguments to gdaltindex?  That appears
> to work, but is it loading tiles twice where the high res
> areas are?

Sure, or making two different layers in the mapfile. And yes,
it is. If you're in an 'edge' though, you'll want to have both
on, right? So when someone gets to the viewable edge they
don't end up with white/empty space? If so, there's not 
any other practical option.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta


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