Re: [mapserver-users] Mr Sid vs ECW

On 7/6/2010 11:10 AM, Mark Volz wrote: Hello, Which format is faster ECW or Mr Sid for a large image? P.S. I don’t think I will be able to use a tile cache for the application I am developing. Thanks Mark Volz GIS Specialist Go with ECW. If you have huge CPU power you may not notice, but

Re: [mapserver-users] Mr Sid vs ECW

Mark, These days disk space is easier to come by than time, in general. As Jeff points out, GeoTiff is fast (especially if you use TILEINDEX and MAX/MINSCALEDENOM layers for pyramid/overviews). But GeoTiffs tend to take up 10 to 20 times the amount of disk space of ECWs though... Is th

Re: [mapserver-users] Mr Sid vs ECW

Mark Volz wrote: Hello, Which format is faster ECW or Mr Sid for a large image? P.S. I don’t think I will be able to use a tile cache for the application I am developing. Hi Mark, Although those formats might be high compression, for MapServer I still rely heavily on GeoTIFFs with over

[mapserver-users] Mr Sid vs ECW

Hello, Which format is faster ECW or Mr Sid for a large image? P.S. I don't think I will be able to use a tile cache for the application I am developing. Thanks Mark Volz GIS Specialist ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.o