Check out generating a spatial index (.qix) for your shapefile using shptree. This will speed up displaying when zoomed in to a subset.
Also check out MAXSCALE and MINSCALE to make sure you're only displaying the shapefile when it makes sense. With such a large number of records does it make sense to always display the layer? -e -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arun K Chanumalla Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Slow Layer Display Hello Everyone, iam a newbie to mapserver and this is my first post.i have an elevation data shape file which has as many as 4344711 records in the .dbf file.This shape file is taking 7--8 mins to get completely displayed on the browser. iam assuming that delay in display time is due to the large numebr of records in the .dbf file. is there a way to speed up the process of displaying the shapefile. iam using PHP and html. All your suggestions are welcome Regards Arun
