[OpenLayers-Dev] Tiled WFS layer

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 9/26/07, Andrew Hughes <ahhughes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this is getting a little "Ahead"... this is more "server-side" work..
> but if the client operates with this in mind it could be a good idea.
>
> WFS tiling + Query Caching would be an excellent idea! Similar to WMS-C
> (tilecache).. it would be possible to cache each WFS/Tile query. So what...
> in addition,  server-side middle ware could optimize/downsample/simplify
> complex geometries so that it is composed of only useful data at the Tile's
> resolution.

Nice idea, though it's working with geometries, and I'm only
interested with Markers. If someone wants to add support for Vectors,
what you suggest should be possible,
> p.s . martin keep this in mind for a bigger picture... you might want to
> store something other than a "BufferedImage" one day :), particular if you
> are providing a data for "brainless", "gutless", "low bandwidth" mobile
> phones.

I don't understand. What is a "BufferedImage in this context?

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/