Hi ALL,
We serve traffic lines that gets updated every 5 minutes from our feeds. We
would like to use Map Server to generate transparent tiles showing colored
polylines of the traffic.
I am newbie to Map Server, I got the server and workshop running and also I
think I have some good understanding
I’ll let others weigh in on throughput. Seems like that should be a matter of
resources and how much hardware you can throw at the problem. Are you using
MapCache to serve tiles? MapServer itself is good for rendering tiles or more
likely, metatiles.
On thread safety MapServer itself isn’t doin
Hi Steve,
Thank you so much for the informative reply, much appreciated!
It's actually a new dataset copy every 5 minutes, it seems like replacing a
shape file would be most efficient.
We are not using MapCache, do you think it would be a good option for our
use case with this frequent updates?
MapCache would be a *much* better option than using MapServer in tile mode. You
still need something to render tiles (e.g. MapServer) but MapCache manages the
tiles and is the interface between your client application and the tiled data.
The brute force method would be replace the data and then
I got your point, will definitely dig into the MapCache. Thank you so much
for being so helpful, all the best!
- Ahmed
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <
steve.l...@state.mn.us> wrote:
> MapCache would be a **much** better option than using MapServer in tile
> mode. You st
In order to serve a lot of requests you generally need to cache. That would
be true of any query against a db, or against a shapefile. The point is,
you don't want to go to db or to disk.
In order make this happen for maps the usual pattern is to serve tiles. If
your data gets updated every 5 minut
