[mapserver-users] Accessing images from remote servers

[thomas bonfort]

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.

Probably the first question, if you are going to access your data
remotely through WMS/WFS, is "why would you need to access the
tileindexes" ?

>
> Hope this makes sense and I look forward to some suggestions.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ian
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