Gregor Mosheh wrote: > Scott Davis wrote: > >> I have a datalayer that has ~10,000 bus stops (points). >> > > WFS is basically like GeoRSS in that it communicates XML about vector > data, and that the browser must decipher the XML. Differrence 1 is that > it can describe more than a point; difference 2 is that it's even more > verbose and therefore XML parsing is even slower. > Well WFS can return things other than XML, at least for getting features. GeoServer now has a geojson plugin.
> So if you're in a circumstance (say, zoomed out to the city-wide view) > where you'll want to see 1,000 points or even 500, you probably won't > enjoy the effect. > > This has been a thorn in my side for a few years, wanting to use WFS but > finding it impractical for any significant scales of use. > This is true, I agree that WFS does not solve this problem. The spec authors may say that it's not the problem they were wanting to solve. I personally think it's a very important problem, but will probably take a new spec. Chris _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
