All I can advice you is reduce the number of vertices's in your preferred GIS software.
You can simplify your geometry with: Mapserver: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2753 Postgis: ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology(geometry, tolerance) Grass: http://linux.die.net/man/1/v.generalize On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Worth Lutz <[email protected]> wrote: > About 740, I think. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pavel Iacovlev [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:35 PM > To: Worth Lutz > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] PHP mapscript $shape->buffer() takes a long > time > > If the geometry has a lot of vertices's it can take some time, how > many does your geometry have ? > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Worth Lutz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I’m trying to buffer a shape returned from a point query on a polygon > layer >> of parcels. >> >> >> >> When I try to use: >> >> >> >> $bufferedShape = $shape->buffer(200); >> >> >> >> I get back a fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded. >> >> I know that this is a php error message and that I could increase the >> allowable execution time. >> >> >> >> If I use a buffer distance of 175 I get results. >> >> >> >> Should it take such a long time to but a buffer around this parcel? It is > a >> large parcel with one corner being a long curve like a quarter of a circle >> and another section on one side being a half circle. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> >> > > > > -- > http://iap.md, The future is open > > -- http://iap.md, The future is open _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
