[OpenLayers-Users] General question for displaying large numbers of points

[Phil Scadden]

> Has anyone on the list encountered or dealt with a situation where 
> very large numbers of points needed to be displayed or rendered (i.e. 
> LIDAR data)? I would imagine that you'd have to do the rendering 
> server-side, and then display an optimized product in the client. Has 
> anyone confronted this, or have suggestions? 
Absolutely do it serverside. Openlayers is very limited with no. of 
points it can handle as vector. Geoserver by contrast should handle 
quite well. Do clients actually need each LIDAR point? You could look at 
pre-render image on geoserver.


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