Why not just put some catalog identifier as an attribute in your mosaic layer. I still would think with that many images there were some logical groupings. That said you could easily filter with the catalog identifier and get the desired result.
--Paul On Feb 26, 2012, at 7:52 AM, "DrYSG" <ygutfre...@draper.com> wrote: > I apologize, I left out an important point. > > We do not plan on the users to directly access the WMS server. Instead, > there is a meta-data catalog of all images kept in a CS-W compatible > catalog. Users will first search here (and filter based on location, and > other metadata attributes) and the result list will be return which then > will be used to fetch images from the WMS server. This means we have a lot > of flexibility to return well crafted URLs to send to either the WMS server > or our intercept proxy and to specify the exact set of images desired. > > There are a couple of advantages to this architecture: > > 1. The catalog server has better indexing and filtering tools to rapidly > sub-sample the 20M records to just a few (and return them in rank for > mosaicing).l > 2. We can provide dynamic sorting akin to ArcGIS Server Image Extensions > 3. Less burden on GeoServer (we suspect that our catalog server is better > designed for this sort of searches) > > You might ask why we need the WMS server? Good Question. If the client can > consume the set of images straight from an HTTP server, that would be fine. > But there are clients that are only set up for WMS and WCS overlays, as well > as some useful tiling and re projection services that the WMS server > provides. > > This is also a reason why we did not really spend a lot of time thinking > about GetCapabillites on the WMS server. We don't see this as the entry > point. We see the catalog server returning a GetMap URL directly. > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/20-Million-Image-files-tp4503489p4510284.html > Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
