[mapserver-users] Layer Size

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 7/6/2012 3:32 AM, Alexander Barth wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> i want to know if there is a way to increase the size of a layer. My
> problem is that i want to get a satellite image in the background of
> mein generated map and well i have the satellite image that where used
> to create the classified information that i use to draw the map, but
> they are to big to have them loaded every time. So i made simple tif /
> jpg pictures out of them, but the problem is that these are to smal and
> they only fill a smal amount of the map that is drawn.
>
> Any Ideas how to resolve my problem?

Sounds like you need to build a tileindex. Read this:
http://mapserver.org/input/raster.html#how-are-rasters-added-to-a-map-file

-Steve W