>> - using postgis instead of shapefiles >> > IMO: No. the onload event shouldn't wait for the WMS-images to be > returned, as you initialize the layers after wards, right. As for the > performance of the WMS: It depends, more often than not I found > shapefiles to be the fastes possibility. Depends on the server used. MapServer will spit out shapefiles much faster if you provide it with a .qix index file *together with* a shapefile index (.shx)..You cangenerate .qix files with MapServer shptree utility (http://mapserver.org/utilities/shptree.html).
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