[mapserver-users] Accessing images from remote servers

[Ian Walberg]

Thomas,

We are reviewing the options as part of this exercise but at the moment we were hoping to use http which was why WMS and WFS seemed appealing.

I am not familiar with FUSE mounted directories but I assume this would allow us to see the remote server as if it was in the local filesystem?

Regards

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: thomas bonfort [mailto:thomas.bonfort at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:23 AM
To: Ian Walberg
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org; mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Accessing images from remote servers

Ian,
What mechanism were you considering to access the remote data? Plain
tileindexes+shapefiles on a FUSE mounted directory should be
completely transparent from mapserver, and you get to choose which fuse mechanism to use to do the network mounting.

regards,
thomas

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Ian Walberg <ian.walberg at airborne.aero> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> We need to build a mapserver application which is running on multiple 
> devices with limited local storage, because of this the imagery will 
> have to be  on a separate server.
>
> The application we have today runs on a single server and we access 
> the imagery using tileindex shapefiles.
>
> So the question is when we move everything but the imagery to the 
> individual devices can we access the imagery tileindex shapfiles 
> remotely? We currently limited experience of the WMS and WFS 
> interfaces but from a quick look these do not seem to allow us to 
> access the tileindex as we do locally.
>
> Hope this makes sense and I look forward to some suggestions.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ian
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