This below openlayers mars map is pretty cool... As a side-effect WMS providers are going to be forced to start caching their query results...
http://location.highearthorbit.com/space/mars.html - a ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:15:25 -0400 From: Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Interplanetary Maps & Caching Great suggestions all - this was why I posted the problems to the list. :) I used Adam Hill's Links & Chris Schmidt's examples (and the dev OL) to update the Mars map: http://location.highearthorbit.com/space/mars.html I will pass on the ka-map info to the NASA people. Thanks again for your help. Andrew On 10/12/06, chrislist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew, can you not suggest say Kamap's tiling cache to the NASA guy? At > least then his server will be able to cope with little tweaking required. > > Just a suggestion > > Chris > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:01:18 -0700 (MST), Anselm Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Yeah, this is why I was hesitant to list my own WMS servers in the call > > for WMS servers mentioned earlier. > > > > - a > > > > > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Andrew Turner wrote: > > > >> OpenLayers rocks - I found out about the NASA Mars WMS server and so > >> of course wanted to replace their rather static images with a "slippy > >> map". Locations for landers, rovers, and landscape are being fed via > >> GeoRSS from a Wordpress blog. > >> > >> http://location.highearthorbit.com/space/mars.html > >> > >> It's a great example of the cool things you can do quickly with OL. > >> > >> The problem is, the NASA WMS server keeps falling under the load. I > >> was wondering if anyone had ideas on why this might be happening and > >> what can be done to resolve it. Perhaps time for the P2P tile sharing > >> scheme? :) > >> > >> >From the Nasa WMS admin: > >> --- > >> I can't handle the load, I don't have the hardware/software/time > > resources. > >> There seems to be a new popular app out there (probably OpenLayers) > >> running under a browser, that makes gazilions of 256x256 requests. The > >> problem is that a lot of layers are used, many caches would be required. > >> > >> (later response) > >> > >> Local copies of tiles help somewhat, but not that much. The thing that > >> helps is to set up caches. I can then figure out how to distribute the > >> caches and the cache servers. This would be much better than a simple > >> http cache. > >> I am surprised an caught off-guard by this new rise in popularity, for > >> the last year or so trafic went down. I hope that once the daily modis > >> images start to come in, trafic will go down. > >> --- > >> > >> Andrew > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Dev mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > -- > Chris Tweedie > > -- Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42.4266N x 83.4931W http://highearthorbit.com Northville, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
