[OpenLayers-Users] Suggestion for hosting platform?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> I sounds like OpenLayers with a WMS or TileCache or tiled WMS layer
> would work for you.  Even if you used a pre-rendered tile backend, I
> believe that you could still send WMS getFeatureInfo requests to a WMS
> server (you would need to keep the data in sync though).
>
> If KaMap wasn't performing well for you, I don't think that just
> because KaMap was built on phpMapScript, you should assume that you
> will get the same performance from MapServer.
>
> MapServer can serve up WMS pretty well.  You can look at a comparison
> of MapServer and GeoServer in the FOSS4G WMS shootout.
> http://www.slideshare.net/gatewaygeomatics.com/wms-performance-shootout
>
> The trick to serving any of this data quickly is making sure that you
> have pre-processed and optimized/indexed your data as much as possible
> to reduce the amount of processing that has to happen at the time of a
> request.  As for MapServer vector data sources, I believe that the
> common thought is that shapefiles are still faster, but PostGIS
> performance has been significantly improved in the past few years.  In
> cases where your data is more complex, you have more complicated
> filtering needs, or your data changes frequently, the flexibility of
> PostGIS is worth the small performance hit.  MapServer also has
> support for SQL Server.
>
> David.
>
>
>
> If you are familiar with MapServer, you can use it to pre-render the
> tiles for your TileCache or WMS-T.

David, I guess you meant WMS-C, no?


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