[MapServer-users] Is there a "best" source file format for serving WMS from raster layers?

[Stefan Gofferje]

Hi Jeff,

On 7/30/24 00:14, Jeff McKenna via MapServer-users wrote:
> I maintain 2 documents that try to handle those questions:
> 
> - raster optimization: https://mapserver.org/optimization/raster.html
> - vector optimization: https://mapserver.org/optimization/vector.html

Awesome, I will check those!

> Assuming that you mean the source format of your data (and not the 
> output format for the WMS service), for raster sources I still rely on 
> the speed of a properly indexed GeoTIFF.  (yes the cool kids may use 
> other formats ha)

Yes, that was what I was wondering about, thanks!

For years now, I have been half-heartedly tinkering with the 
modernization of my weather website saakeskus.fi. At the moment (since 
2008), I'm using GrADs to create PNG images which are available through 
a website. I have been thinking of modernizing it by using mapserver as 
a backend and leaflet as a frontend while creating the layer 
source/input files with GDAL. But it's a slow process... I have to learn 
mapserver and GDAL plus Python to put it all together. It's a hobby 
project which doesn't generate any income, so it tends to always end up 
lowest on my todo list.

> In terms of output formats, I recently had some back-and-forth with an 
> admin of an Esri WMS service, about their use of output formats in their 
> WMS service - it seems the format discussion is never-ending, and as 
> important today in year 2024 ha.

I haven't even thought about those :D. It's probably gonna be PNG or 
JPEG, whatever works best in the tests

> Hope your summer is going well,

Thanks! Same to you!
-Stefan

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