On 7/20/07, Joanne Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an openlayers site at http://mapdata.thehumanjourney.net, and I want > to ensure that it's as optimised as possible because it's quite slow to load > at the moment. I would like to ask for help from the openlayers community as > to possible ways to improve the performance of the map. > > In return you'll get lots of good karma, mention in our code and on our > blogs. Not much, I know, but it's all I can offer... > > My base data is served from an indexed postgresql/postgis database (there are > a couple of thousand points in it). > > I know that I can't use tilecache with either the Virtual Earth or Google > Earth base layer, so that's out of the question unless someone can point me > in the direction of a base layer that does something similar to what I > currently have. > > I have tried both mapserver and geoserver to serve the wms, and for the > moment am using mapserver because it seems a little quicker. > > Any pointers that people can give me on tuning the performance (even if it's > just to tell me to go and see the mapserver/geoserver folks) would be > extremely gratefully received! > > Thanks
Hi One thing: you don't seem to be using the compressed OpenLayers library. I'd recommend looking into directory "build" and learn how to build a compressed and specialized library. -- Eric _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
