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| 1 | 3136 | perry | The diagrams presented in this directory represent an early, high-level attempt to describe the spatial functionality of metacat. Though the overall concpets are similar, the implementation details are considerably different: |
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| 3 | - Vector data is stored on the filesystem as shapefiles in order to avoid having a postgres/postgis dependency |
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| 4 | - Geoserver acts as the map renderer and sends only images to the web client (not GML) |
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| 5 | - The diagram does not accurately portray the spatial caching mechanism that is essentially the interface between geoserver and metacat. |
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| 6 | - Complex spatial objects (ie GML features) can not currently be cached (only bounding coordinates) |
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