[ka-Map-users] Improving ka-map speed with non-cached WMS?

[percy]

Bob, let me second Steve's good advice, use Openlayers as your client!

We switched several years ago, but we still use kamap as our tiling 
engine. OL will let you call a WMS as a single call (singleTile: true), 
call mapserver directly for uncached data, etc, etc.
Percy

> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:56:55 -0500
> From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
> Subject: Re: [ka-Map-users] Improving ka-map speed with non-cached
> 	WMS?
> To: "Bistrais, Bob" <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov>
> Cc: ka-map-users at lists.maptools.org
> Message-ID: <4B29AC07.40402 at swoodbridge.com>
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> 
> Personally, I have switched all my application building over to 
> OpenLayers because is has all the functionality of ka-map on the client 
> side and will support ka-maps precache script if you want to use it on 
> the server-side and you can mix layers in tiles, with a single-tile mode 
> which just draws a single large image filling the view port like you are 
> requesting. Also OpenLayers has a very active community and is still 
> very active on the development side of things.
> 
> http://openlayers.org/
> 
> -Steve
> 
> Bistrais, Bob wrote:
>> I'm looking into doing this, and may well be asking for further advice.
>>
>> Taking it from another angle- is it possible to bypass or disable
>> ka-map's tiling for the image layers?  I don't mean precached vs.
>> nocache, what I mean is, is it possible to draw the WMS data directly
>> and without breaking it into tiles when ka-map renders it?  I'm asking
>> because this seems to be what's slowing it down.  I can draw my WMS
>> services in MapServer CGI mode and they're plenty fast.  Likewise, using
>> the same WMS services in ArcGIS or other platforms, they draw more
>> quickly than with ka-map.

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David Percy
Geospatial Data Manager
Geology Department
Portland State University
http://gisgeek.pdx.edu
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