-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Shorter wrote: > Pieter, good to hear your interest and to hear that geomajas would be > covered. > Anyone interested to step forward for Openlayers, Mapfish or MabBender?
Hi, we have given the talk "Typification of OpenLayers, Mapbender and MapFish" [1] in German (translation pending) at FOSSGIS 2010 a few weeks back and received good feedback. It gives an insight to the different ways of tackling spatial data services on the Web with a JS library (OL), a software package (MB) and a developer framework (MF). We will will submit an extended and updated version of the talk for FOSS4G. This goes in the same direction as what you propose. Apart form this I believe that in general it will be hard or even impossible to compare packages that come from so different backgrounds and with so diverse goals on a similar basis as last year's shootout. Even although the WMS protocol based shootout was a damn lot of effort up front and really well done it was still up for quite a bit of discussion. But I am open to contribute in any way. Regards, Arnulf. [1] http://www.mapbender.org/Eine_Typisierung:_OpenLayers,_Mapbender_und_MapFish > What should be compared between web clients? > Think of the target audience for such a comparison being a software > developer trying to decide which webmapping framework to use. What would > be the questions they ask? > > Off the top of my head: > * What browsers are supported/tested against for each stable release? > > * How responsive is the application? > ** How large is the javascript which needs to be downloaded to the browser? > ** > > * What basemaps are supported > ** Google Maps, WMS, WFS, ... > > * What tools are supported? > ** Pan/Zoom/Edit Feature ... > > > Pieter De Graef wrote: >> Cameron, >> >> if the others are too, I would be interested in such a comparison. >> My main question wouls be, exactly what would we be testing? >> Performance (how?), functionality, ease-of-use, architecture, .... >> >> I still have to check my schedule, but I believe I can set aside a >> enough time. I will already forward this mail to the Geomajas mailing >> list, to check for response there. >> >> >> >> >> Cameron Shorter schreef: >>> German Carillo has been building a gis web client comparison which >>> will make a good basis for a foss4g presentation here: >>> >>> http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en >>> >>> >>> Does anyone know how to contact German so that we can thank him, and >>> invite him to participate in a FOSS4G presentation? >>> >>> Who else would be available to help out with a browser comparison for >>> the various projects? >>> >>> Cameron Shorter wrote: >>>> Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April 2010 and I'm >>>> hoping that we will see abstracts for: >>>> >>>> * LiveDVD lightening overview >>>> * WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout >>>> * Desktop comparison >>>> * Browser Client comparison >>>> * Database comparison >>>> >>>> I predict that these presentations will be by far the most popular >>>> presentations of the conference. Further, I'm expecting to >>>> incorporate results onto the LiveDVD. They will be a lot of effort >>>> to prepare, partly because they will need a team of project >>>> developers to contribute to it, and consequently, unless we get our >>>> act together soon, I suspect that no-one will submit presentations >>>> for some of the topics above. >>>> >>>> So I encourage people to respond to the following targeted email >>>> threads, noting your intention to help and be part of one of the >>>> presentation teams. (Note, the presentation will be the easy bit, >>>> the hard bit will be collating the material for the presentation). >>>> >>>> A good team for these comparison projects will consist of: >>>> >>>> * a representative from each project in the comparison. These types >>>> of comparisons will be the first place new users will go when >>>> researching software, so are well worth participating in. >>>> * users who have used more than one of the applications >>>> * anyone involved in related comparison reviews, or development of >>>> feature tables or similar >>>> * coordinator/"get it done" people who can pull it all together >>>> * people who can speak well, and efficiently. (You will have lots of >>>> material to present is a short time) >>>> >>> >> > > - -- Arnulf Christl Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvENzcACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b3j5ACfaIQqz3cgPDOzJfqtaVKqC5wj TgEAn3AbQJz91mqGyOvyaVeYHnLBQIJr =IlBS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss