Shouldn't you then just simplify/generalize the geometries at the database level so that at a smaller map scale less and simpler geometries can be retrieved by Mapserver? So make several tables and apply them to scale levels.
Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS, Open Source GIS http://www.osgis.nl --------- Oorspronkelijk bericht -------- Van: Pleyer, Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Naar: Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] <[email protected]> Onderwerp: AW: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] UMN - Oracle Spatial Datum: 29/01/07 10:46 > > > > Mapserver queries Oracle row by row (fetch by id). This works > > fine for shapefiles but not for database sources. > With queries I actually meant the step of retrieving the geometry data > for drawing the map. Some of the maps contain between 10000 and 20000 > geometries. > > Walter > >
