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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> View this message in context: >>>>> http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/best-way-to-show-many-static-points-tp5007504.html >>>>> Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users >
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