Re: [mapserver-users] Shape files or KMLs- rendering which among this is faster?

2013-06-26 Thread Jeff McKenna
Hi Sowmya, In my hands-on training workshops for MapServer I still recommend keeping things fast and efficient with shapefiles for vectors (with .qix index files) and geotiffs for rasters (indexed with gdaltindex). Of course for clients I implement KML files and different database backends, and s

[mapserver-users] Shape files or KMLs- rendering which among this is faster?

2013-06-26 Thread Sowmya Tiramdasu
Hi, Can anyone suggest which input format ( Shape file or KML file) will the mapserver render faster and efficiently? Also, my requirement is to classify my features and have different symbology for them. So, is it a good idea for me to save all my features(points/lines/polygons) in to a sha