Hi experts,
We are integrating HANA with a previously developed GIS application.
I've seen several posts refering this article about how to consume Geospatial data stored in HANA from a web application:
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2015/02/18/on-spatial-analysis-with-hana
But we don't want to take that approach, because we want to transform the vectorial data to rasters in the server instead of the client. We want our client to consume raster images instead of vectorial data. We need to avoid rendering the vectors as images in the client side because we will draw many geometries at the same time and it can overthrow the client.
Our idea is to use MapServer (or other alternative) to make a server side transformation from the vectorial format (i.e. the HANA table) to an image (i.e. a raster) that can be directly drawn using client side libraries (as OpenLayers, for instance). In other words we need to expose our HANA geospatial tables as a WMS service, in order to connect our client directly.
Do you have any suggestion about how to proceed?
Thanks in advance
Juan