In this example it is making Map Tiles.... correct but the point is... that you don't need to have the data in SQL Server to use the SQL Spacial functionality.... it shows how easily you can use it via C# and this data could be coming from anywhere, then you can access the funtionality of the SQL Spiacial features in your code...
e.g. say Greg has a list of data for towns/cities as points and an "int" for the population of that city/town... on a mouse over he may with to make a service that can convert that point to a circle that has a radius that is relitive to the size of the population of that town/city you may wish to have all the data loaded by default... or you may have quite a large amount of data for a mouse over display and you may wish to the pull that data (and maybe manipulate it as well) on demand.... so yes in that example it is generating map tiles... but with a bit of imagination the exmaple can be applied in many ways... not just Map Tile Generation ayway the point of the link is that you can use all this functionality with data from anywhere, not just data sitting in a MS SQL 2008 Db On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Richard Mason <rich...@rikware.com> wrote: > The big difference with your link is that its displaying rastered > information so interaction is a bit different. Specifically with Greg's > specs is you can't easily do the "hit testing and pleasing animations on > mouse over and click" since you don't have the details of the polygons on > the client side. It can however support larger and more complex data > since you don't rely on the client for rendering. > > If you really want to use the dynamic tile generation though you'll need > to carefully think about your server-side hardware if you want to support > any significant number of users. I work in a team that has a deployed a > dynamic tile solution for 500+ internal users and a large set of data. We > quickly found we needed to pre-generate a lot of the tiles to get suitable > performance. > > Greg - I encourage you to jump into the spatial world. It's lots of fun > and you immediately start seeing all the ways you could be presenting data > to users spatially - which is often a great option for the user. Of course > you then are in complete disbelief when data ISN'T presented spatially... > tonight I'm specifically thinking about live QLD election results on a map. > Can't find one anywhere :( > > Richard > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:39 PM, .net noobie <dotnetnoo...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> the link i sent has the same as richard, but also shows how you can do >> these things in code C# with out SQL Server >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Richard, you have mentioned some very interesting tools and >>> techniques, so technically interesting in fact that I feel compelled to get >>> the tools and play with them. I refuse to be defeated by shapefiles - Greg >>> **** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ozsilverlight mailing list >>> ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com >>> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozsilverlight mailing list >> ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > >
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