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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>We have a MapServer application that
uses ESRI shapefiles. There is a different shapefile for land, street, city
name, railroads, parks, etc. MapServer creates and overlays tiles/layers for
each and decorates them according to the mapfile.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>The problem is that it requires over 200
GETs on the web server to pull all these layers/tiles down to the client and
render them. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Since all these layers are static and
never need to be toggled on/off, we would like to ‘flatten’ them
into one layer. This would reduce the number of GETs by almost an order of
magnitude.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Does anyone know how to do this while
keeping the ‘decoration’ (like colors, fonts, etc.) specified in
the mapfile?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'> André Lockhart, President<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'> <a
href="mailto:andre@CoValuate.com">andre@CoValuate.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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