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<font face="Tahoma">Hello list,<br>
<br>
this is my first email to this list. I am working with MapServer,
OpenLayers & TileCache for almost 1 year now and the tools are
really working great together, when everything is configured correctly
;-)<br>
<br>
At the moment I´m facing a performance problem with raster data that
serves as input data to render my map tiles. The spatial resolution of
this raster data is 720 (rows) x 360 (cols) and it is stored in a
simple .txt file (The size of the file is around 2 MB). </font><font
face="Tahoma">I use TileCache to prerender maptiles for different zoom
levels that are later displayed in a web application using OpenLayers.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Tahoma">I discovered, that the rendering speed of
MapServer seems to mainly depend on how many different classes I define
within my mapfile, meaning how many expressions MapServer has to
evaluate during the rendering process. Without any classes MapServer
the rendering speed is really fast, the more classes I use the slower
it gets. With e.g. 10 different classes defining 10 different styles /
pixel colors the rendering time for one tile can increase up to 60 sec.<br>
<br>
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</span>EXPRESSION ([pixel] >= -4 AND [pixel] < -3)<span
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<font face="Tahoma">While working with shape files I haven´t had this
problems and prerendering map tiles was really fast. With raster data
the rendering time for one map and 5 different zoom levels can take up
to several hours and almost overburdens my CPU.<br>
<br>
Can anybody give me a hint how I could improve this?<br>
<br>
Best, Tobi<br>
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