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 <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 9 Oct 2012, at 20:35, m1k3ry4n <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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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