[mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-31 Thread Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK
Hello Daniel, before submitting a "patch" there are just some things to note. But it's nice that there's so much interest on it. > What was involved in setting up an Apache module? There was talk about > doing that as an experiment a few weeks ago on the mapserver-dev list. > If you are interes

Re: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-25 Thread Colin Wetherbee
Gregor Mosheh wrote: Daniel Morissette wrote: Well, in the meantime I patched the MapServer code a little bit and made it being an Apache module, reading and parsing the map file only once on startup. Are you serious, mod_mapserver? Holy cow, that would be awesome! I would be VERY interested

Re: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-25 Thread Gregor Mosheh
Daniel Morissette wrote: Well, in the meantime I patched the MapServer code a little bit and made it being an Apache module, reading and parsing the map file only once on startup. Are you serious, mod_mapserver? Holy cow, that would be awesome! I would be VERY interested to hear about stabilit

Re: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-25 Thread Daniel Morissette
Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK wrote: [...] Well, in the meantime I patched the MapServer code a little bit and made it being an Apache module, reading and parsing the map file only once on startup. This is much faster than the good old CGI and seems to work fine... Andreas, What was involved in

[mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-25 Thread Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK
Hello Armin, > If you don't mind using Python MapScript instead of the Mapserver CGI then you > could try to use this Python class that uses the OWSRequest > functionality of Mapserver/Mapscript: although this is a nice approach, I can't go with Python. We need a high performance WMS and I beli

Re: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-21 Thread Armin Burger
ta Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK Lähetetty: 6. maaliskuuta 2008 9:26 Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Aihe: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews Hello Jacob, thanks for your try but this didn't help, sorry. IMHO the problem is that there seems to be no way to declare multip

Re: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-06 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
Rahkonen- > -Alkuperäinen viesti- > Lähettäjä: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Puolesta > Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK > Lähetetty: 6. maaliskuuta 2008 9:26 > Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > Aihe: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overview

[mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-05 Thread Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK
Hello Jacob, thanks for your try but this didn't help, sorry. IMHO the problem is that there seems to be no way to declare multiple, scale dependend data sources for one layer (in a WMS sense). Since the only reason of using of overviews for me is the (nearly) scale-independent performance. But o

RE: [mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-05 Thread Delfos, Jacob
ould cause MapServer to draw them at the same time. Hope this helps, Jacob > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK > Sent: 6 March 2008 15:41 > To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >

[mapserver-users] Re: Hiding overviews

2008-03-05 Thread Eichner, Andreas - SID-NLK
Hmm, seems my description wasn't clear enough, so I'll try to precise... For a layer with raster data I created external overviews. To make use of them I copied the LAYER portion of the map file, changed the TILEINDEX statement to point to the index of the appropriate overview, set MINSCALE/MAXSC