[OpenLayers-Users] Mapserver vs WMS.layer

[Eric Lemoine]

On Dec 28, 2007 5:54 PM, David William Bitner <david.bitner at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's still using MapServer, so changing layer type shouldn't make a
> difference.

Hmm you may be right, but it is also possible that mapserv runs faster
if one uses its private, non-standard API.

> Tuning your MapServer by creating indexing, scale dependent
> layering, generalizing, etc. will be the things that will make your
> MapServer faster.  Alternatively (or in addition) you could look into a
> tiling engine like TileCache to prerender tiles.

Definitely. And using OpenLayers.Layer.TileCache instead of
OpenLayers.Layer.WMS will speed things up even more...

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Eric