You're using OpenLayers? If so then that's a question for that mailing list I guess. There are configuration options to limit the number of tiles retrieved. I believe it's a 'ratio' parameter passed when instantiating a layer and if set to 1 you don't get anything beyond the view port.
Steve >>> On 9/8/2009 at 12:08 PM, in message >>> <[email protected]>, luciosoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, i need your valuable help with this issue I have: > > I'm running MapServer 4.8.1 over Apache 2.2.1 in Windows, and also TileCache > 2.1 using mod_python, everything is great so far, but i want to improve the > performance when displaying the maps by only showing the tiles in the > current extent, let me explain: I've noticed that when I zoom in the > mapserver in some way (that I'm too stupid to find out) takes the > coordinates and starts sending the request to get the tiles one by one, i > see that sometimes it downloads up to 70 tiles when looking at the screen no > more than 20 would be neccesary to fill the screen, so that is the question, > how do i make mapserver to show me just the necessary stuff instead of > downloading tiles that are close to the visible area but are not necessary > anyway? > > Thank a lot. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
