> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:[email protected]] > > Paul, > > Paul Norman wrote: > > My second method for imagery is to use mapserver to serve it up as a > > WMS layer. That didn't work, mapserver never responded when trying to > > handle such a large file. I think it just took too long to process > > anything with it. > > I have no first-hand experience with such large images in Mapserver but > just to be sure - you do know about the overview pyramids one uses with > such images (http://mapserver.org/input/raster.html#rasters-and-tile- > indexing, > http://www.gdal.org/gdaladdo.html)? >
I wasn't aware of that, thanks. I'm running gdal_retile (with a size of 4096x4096 px per tile) now on my windows box, while the Ubuntu box is running gdal_translate -co TILED=YES, and when they're both done I'm going to compare performance with MapServer _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
