[OpenLayers-Users] best way to show many static points

[Tobias Reinicke]

Yes, it's a deployed thing. Although it does only have quite a lightweight
footprint.

Thinking outside the box, as it were and forgive the pun, this is a far
stretch - I know google enterprise allows you to upload data and feed it
out as a wms (quite a new development - you'd need to be an enterprise
client). Possibly something like geocommons / giscloud may allow you to
upload data and do the same.

Hope it helps..

Toby

On 9 October 2012 21:26, Mike Ryan <m.ryan6000 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  No, we have control. The "other" person is just my co-worker.
>
> I believe our real stumbling block at the moment is that we're using
> shared hosting. Typically, running/installing geoserver & mapserver would
> require our our own (virtual) server, right?
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 10/9/2012 4:18 PM, Toby Reinicke wrote:
>
> Well there we go then. As Phil also says, mapserver is good too, although
> I have no experience with it. Trouble with both is that you need to have
> some control over the data. (I.e load it into a db).
> From what you have written it seems that this may be your stumbling block.
>
>  Toby
>
> On 9 Oct 2012, at 21:12, Mike Ryan <m.ryan6000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>   Hmmm... the plot thickens. Geoserver. Don't know a thing about it, yet.
>
> I'm not actually creating the tiles, someone else is, using TileMill and
> then, yes pulling in an XYZ Tile layer from MapBox.
>
>
> On 10/9/2012 4:07 PM, Toby Reinicke wrote:
>
> Ah ok. Some more information on your setup would be of interest. How do
> you build your mapbox tiles? Do you have a WMs server running? For my sins
> I haven't used mapbox much, and I presume you're pulling them in as a Tile
> layer? Passing in x,y,z params?
>
>  If I had these reqs I'd use geoserver in a heartbeat.
>
>  Toby
>
> On 9 Oct 2012, at 20:55, Mike Ryan <m.ryan6000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   The problem with tiles in my situation -- and someone jump in here if
> this doesn't sound right -- is that they'd cover the entire state of New
> York from low to high zoom levels, like 10 to 17. We've done this just fine
> for a small part of NYC using MapBox, but it seems that to cover the entire
> state is cost prohibitive because we'd require such a huge amount of
> storage.
>
> Does that sound out of whack?
>
> The next strategy is to use tiles at low zoom levels and then switch over
> to loading points at the high levels.
>
> I'll mess around w/ the single tile idea you mention.
>
> Thanks
>
> On 10/9/2012 3:48 PM, Toby Reinicke wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> So what's the problem with tiles? Server side stuff is your only choice really. Not going to load those points into a browser.
>
> If its tiles you don't like you can always call the openlayers layer as a single tile? Slow down the rendering a bit but will just create the one image...
>
> Toby
>
>
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> On 9 Oct 2012, at 20:35, m1k3ry4n <mr at mry4n.net> <mr at mry4n.net> wrote:
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>
>  I have a situation where I'm going to have hundreds of thousands of points,
> and I'm wondering what the options are for displaying them other than using
> Tiles. These points are static, I do not need to interact with them, move
> them around, etc. Any thoughts?
>
> PS: On a separate note, I'm posting this from Nabble. I've been trying to
> send messages to the list for a month and the don't seem to be coming
> through. Maybe it's a subtle hint. In any case, if anyone has any ideas on
> what might be going on there, please let me know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
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