<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:rtc="http://microsoft.com/officenet/conferencing" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:Repl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/repl/" xmlns:mt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ppda="http://www.passport.com/NameSpace.xsd" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:udcp2p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/parttopart" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:dsss="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig-setup" xmlns:dssi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig" xmlns:mdssi="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/digital-signature" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:spwp="http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:pptsl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/SlideLibrary/" xmlns:spsl="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/PublishedLinksService" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="&#1;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
 /* Font Definitions */
 @font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Tahoma;
        panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
 /* Style Definitions */
 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {margin:0in;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:12.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:blue;
        text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:purple;
        text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
        {mso-style-type:personal-reply;
        font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
        color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
        {size:8.5in 11.0in;
        margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
 <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
 <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
  <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
 </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>

<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>

<div class=WordSection1>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Like with everything it depends&#8230;&nbsp; Selection of
features via a bounding box shouldn&#8217;t be much, or really any, slower than
drawing since it&#8217;s basically the same mechanism for both. Attribute
queries can be quite slow with shapefiles since MapServer doesn&#8217;t do any
attribute indexing. That&#8217;s where the RDMS really adds value. There
shouldn&#8217;t be much of a difference with a bbox query, and in fact, a local
shapefile will probably be faster, even on larger datasets as long as you&#8217;ve
build an spatial index file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Anyway, it&#8217;s what you do with results afterwards that
matters and that&#8217;s probably specific to your application. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve
used query files to persist selected features over many map draws successfully
on modest (50,000 feature) sized shapefiles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Chris Jackson
[mailto:webturtles@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lime, Steve D (DNR)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] Feature select performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Steve<br>
<br>
The selection of layer data is done by a bounding box, though querying by
parameter values is just as slow.&nbsp; The mapfile is directly calling up the
shapefile (I had just followed the P.Mapper examples of displaying/querying
shapefiles directly).&nbsp; So probably the answers to those questions lie
under the hood of P.Mapper, which I assume is using the PHP mapscript.dll to do
the work.&nbsp; Is the direct query to shapefile approach v.efficient for larger
datasets..?.&nbsp; Ignoring the app I am using what is a good approach to large
feature datasets from a MapServer perspective?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>

<div>

<p class=MsoNormal>On 24 August 2010 14:27, Lime, Steve D (DNR) &lt;<a
href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>&gt;
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>How is the selection done? How is the highlighting done?
Those processes will really impact performance depending on how things are
implemented.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
<br>
________________________________________<br>
From: <a href="mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
On Behalf Of Chris Jackson [<a href="mailto:webturtles@gmail.com"
target="_blank">webturtles@gmail.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:19 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
Subject: [mapserver-users] Feature select performance<o:p></o:p></p>

<div>

<div>

<p class=MsoNormal><br>
Hi all<br>
<br>
I have rigged up a webGIS app (P.Mapper framework) where one of the underlying
datasets is a model grid (many thousand cells) in a shapefile. &nbsp;The data
displays nice and quick when just viewing, but if I allow the user to select
say 5000 cells it is very (extremely) slow to redraw with the highlighted
cells. &nbsp;Doing the same task in a very old ArcGIS server web app was much
quicker (admittedly the data was in SDE/MS SQL). &nbsp;So my question is what
is the best way to improve performance - would just transferring the shapefile
to to say a MS SQL 2005 db with the MSSQLSPATIAL add-on be a good step or is
there are better way to present the data in the Map file?<br>
Many thanks<br>
Chris<o:p></o:p></p>

</div>

</div>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

</div>

</body>

</html>