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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’ll let others weigh in on throughput. Seems like that should be a matter of resources and how much hardware you can throw at the problem. Are you using MapCache
to serve tiles? MapServer itself is good for rendering tiles or more likely, metatiles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">On thread safety MapServer itself isn’t doing any file locking. Presumably the OS or database is handling contention issues. I’d think the right way to go for
data storage depends on your update process itself. If you want to incrementally tweak lines as new information becomes available then a database backend seems more reasonable – I’d think you could detect change easier and perhaps only retile very specific
areas as a result. If instead you’re getting a new copy of your entire dataset every 5 minutes then perhaps a shapefile would work best – just replace the file and trigger retiling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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""> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ahmed Aboulenein<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] Best integration with dynamic map information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi ALL,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">We serve traffic lines that gets updated every 5 minutes from our feeds. We would like to use Map Server to generate transparent tiles showing colored polylines of the traffic.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am newbie to Map Server, I got the server and workshop running and also I think I have some good understanding of the map file and layers concept. I have a question about integrating our traffic information as a data source to the MapServer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important aspects for us:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Performance: since we are updating large areas every 5 minutes. We will need throughput like 10K images per second. Does this sound okay?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">2. Threads safety: my concern what happens if while updating the source, the MapServer is actually rendering an image from old data. Any locks?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I understand our options are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Data files: such as shape files or KML files.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Database: PostGIS for example.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">3. Service that pulls data: WMS server - I didn't dig much here.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thanks in advance for your help, some pointers or information to go further.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ahmed<o:p></o:p></p>
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