[MS4W-Users] Raster Data on CDN?

[Brent Fraser]

You could experiment  MapServer's remote file ability:
    
https://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/sq/input/virtual-file.html#display-remote-rast
er-file-directly-in-mapserver
  
 which uses GDAL's virtual files system for networked files:
     
https://gdal.org/user/virtual_file_systems.html#network-based-file-systems
  
 Best Regards,
 Brent Fraser
  
  
 -------- Original Message --------
> From: "IGIS via MS4W-Users" <ms4w-users at lists.ms4w.com>
> Sent: June 22, 2020 8:07 AM
> To: ms4w-users at lists.ms4w.com
> Cc: "IGIS" <igis at interactivegis.com>
> Subject: [MS4W-Users] Raster Data on CDN?
>
> We have a few big SID files and are displaying them pretty basic
> (example below) but we are concerned about space on our C drive and I
> was asked if we could point to a file on a private CDN (like Amazon or
> RackSpace) and host the source files there.  I've not seen that done so
> I wanted to see if that was possible and if it created a performance hit
> if it was possible.
>
> If that's not an option, we can add a new hard drive to the PC with
> MS4W, and I'm also curious if having the SID file on a different drive
> is the same performance wise or not.
>
> Here's our basic MAP file LAYER:
>
> LAYER
>     NAME 'base_sid'
>     DATA "c:/data/FILE.sid"
>     STATUS off
>     TYPE raster
>     PROJECTION
>         "init=epsg:3857"
>     END
> END
>
> Thanks!
>
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