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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bruce,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You might want to pass this by the main mapserver
list.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU">MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU</A>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, I remember from a while back that Ed McNierry
at TopoZone was doing some work with cascading and the like.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is his contact info:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ed
McNierney<BR>President and Chief Mapmaker<BR>TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte,
Inc.<BR>73 Princeton Street, Suite 305<BR>North Chelmsford, MA
01863<BR></FONT><A href="mailto:ed@topozone.com"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>ed@topozone.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(978)
251-4242 </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My two cents:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Personally I like the idea of creating a different
map file for each business area because in the event that one mapserver
application crashes (e.g., hard drive failure) the public (e.g., me) will only
experience minor problems with access to the wms datasets.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With this approach you sould setup a mapserver WMS
configuration on a computer and then Ghost this configuration and deploy this
configuration across several computers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <BR>Regards,<BR>Stephen Clark, E.I.T<BR>GIS
Analyst<BR>The Focus Corporation<BR>"One of Canada's 50 Best Managed
Companies"<BR>10256-101 Avenue<BR>Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada V1J
2B5<BR>Main: (250) 785-7776<BR>Fax: (250) 785-7701<BR>email: <A
href="mailto:stephen.clark@focus.ca">stephen.clark@focus.ca</A><BR>website: <A
href="http://www.focus.ca">www.focus.ca</A></FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Bruce.Tonkin@gov.bc.ca href="mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@gov.bc.ca">Tonkin,
Bruce SRM:EX</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mapserver-west@lists.maptools.org
href="mailto:'mapserver-west@lists.maptools.org'">'mapserver-west@lists.maptools.org'</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Mapserver-west] Mapserver
Configuration</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=326345421-03082005>I have a few
hundred layers of data that I need to publish using MapServer. The plan is not
to publish all the data at once, but add layers to the WMS/s as the need
arises. MapServer has an initial limit or restriction of 50 layers, which
can be changed at compile time.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=326345421-03082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=326345421-03082005>Now my question.
Does it make sense to publish all the data using one big Map file, or does it
make sense to have a different Map file for each business area i.e.. base,
water, wildlife etc... We currently have in excess of a million image
requests a month, so I need to ensure that we are scalable as time goes
by.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=326345421-03082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=326345421-03082005>Your comments or
suggestions would be appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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Tonkin<BR></SPAN></B><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
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