That's probably a result of what drove MapServer development early on. MapServer itself is just a binary (CGI/FCGI) that can do stuff as simple as making simple inset maps or scalebars to distributing maps and data using OGC services with plenty of variations in between. Each call is discrete and there are no long running processes. A single deployment could serve dozens of wide-ranging purposes and in that situation a catalog makes no sense. Those "purposes" often only make sense with the context of the application that uses them. Closest thing to a catalog would be GetCapability responses. Then of course you have MapScript applications that would be difficult, if not impossible, to identify as being related to MapServer.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 11:56 AM Jonathan Moules < jonathan-li...@lightpear.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > (Disclosure: I'm the person behind that blog post.) > > > I wonder how this statistics would look like if MapServer had a built-in > web administration interface like the other competing applications. > > The fact MS is so high without it shows it may not be that important, at > least not to the core audience. > > I think the biggest differentiator in the stats between the top three may > be the fact that MapServers don't have any sort of catalog of services or > other way to find other services on the box. By which I mean, ArcGIS Server > allows you to crawl it and get all of the public services and datasets. > GeoServer if there are namespaces (their way of grouping things into > services) you can go up a level and see what the root is serving, thus > potentially finding more datasets and another service that way (but only > one). But MapServer doesn't have a mechanism like that apparently (I asked > on this list a couple years ago), which means that it's hard to know if > I've found everything on a specific box. That's the biggest catch with the > MapServer stat at least. > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > > > On 2020-06-05 20:28, Tamas Szekeres wrote: > > Very interesting comparison. > I wonder how this statistics would look like if MapServer had a built-in > web administration interface like the other competing applications. > > Best regards, > > Tamas > > > Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. > jún. 5., P, 18:09): > >> Something I noticed this morning: MapServer users might be interested in >> recently published statistics of deployed mapping engine types (ArcGIS, >> GeoServer, MapServer/MapCache, QGIS Server, etc.) : >> https://www.geoseer.net/blog/?p=2020-06-04_geospatial_server_software >> >> >> -jeff >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeff McKenna >> MapServer Consulting and Training Services >> co-founder of FOSS4G >> http://gatewaygeo.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing > listmapserver-users@lists.osgeo.orghttps://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
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