[OpenLayers-Users] Fastest way to create and frequently update ~1000 Features

[Alexandre Dubé]

Hi Andreas,

   What Phil meant is that you should switch to a WMS server returning 
an image to display your all your features, and if you need to query or 
manipulate them use WFS but only with a small number of features at a time.

HTH,

Alexandre


On 12-09-26 06:33 AM, Andreas Schnieders wrote:
> Hi,
> >> to those of you being experienced with large numbers of features: What
> >> do you consider the fastest way to create something around 1000
> >> features and update the every 5 - 60 seconds? Or is there even an
> >> "official" best practice?
> >Large no. of features and KML dont go well together in my opinion. I
> >would strongly consider using WMS for image, WFS for any query. You
> >might want to see how well your application fits WMS-T.
>
> Thanks! But where exactly would be the benefit of switching from KML 
> to GML3 for example? GML is "just" another xml-structure OpenLayers 
> would have to evaluate...?
> Or would you recommend switching to JSON-output for WFS? How would you 
> create the features on client-side in that case?
>
> Kind regards,
> Andreas
>
>
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Alexandre Dubé
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