[OSGeo-Discuss] fastest option of serving huge imagery on web map on the fly

2010-05-20 Thread karsten vennemann
Hi All, I am seeking some advice/ alternative ideas about the following project I am working on... I have been tasked with researching the best and fastest options serving huge raster datasets on a web map using OpenLayers o the fly (using all Open Source software). We want to serve the US

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fastest option of serving huge imagery on web mapon the fly

2010-05-20 Thread Bob Basques
All, We went through this same exercise a few years back, and in the end just opted for Jpegs in a pyramid tile set behind the scenes with MapServer as the assembly service. We had specific needs of being able to assemble seamless images from the aerials in any size and paid a lot of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fastest option of serving huge imagery on web map on the fly

2010-05-20 Thread miblon
If mapserver is to slow, almost everything else is to slow... I also noticed your crosspost on the mapproxy list. mapproxy will even cache to more then the 60TB youve estimated, because it will cache every wms request instead of square, stitched tiles. If I where you and caching is an issue,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Need help backporting postgis-1.5.1 to debian lenny using pbuilder

2010-05-20 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, If anyone has any experience pbuilder on debian and/or backporting postgis to lenny, I could really use some help. I'm using the pkg-grass package definitions. Please contact me off list. If I can get this to work, I'd be happy to document the process and post it somewhere. TIA,