Hi QGIS Server devs, I’m using QGIS server and find it quite convenient, since I can author map projects with powerful QGIS gui and get them published as OGC services right on-the-fly. I don’t think any other FOSS OGC servers out there can boast the same functionality. I’m not a QGIS Server committer, but I’d be happy to help testing new versions and providing feedback - like testing master builds and reporting bugs, regressions, etc.
One thought about the future improvements: most webmaps and GIS software utilise vector tiles now and Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT), recently adopted by ESRI, really became a de-facto standard. But unfortunately QGIS Server lacks implementation of vector tile creation and serving. While QGIS has bleeding-edge desktop functionality, QGIS Server sadly stays behind progress here. IMHO adopting vector tiles (reading and most importantly creation) should be one of top priorities for future versions. I know QGIS depends on GDAL mostly in terms of I/O, so it really should be solved on both GDAL and QGIS levels. But as far as I know GDAL dev community doesn’t have any particular plans to implement MVT driver (or, perhaps, they do?:). Some work is going on the postgis side (https://gist.github.com/bjornharrtell/7f4b6c030d4faa63f99b1ceb6f3edcef <https://gist.github.com/bjornharrtell/7f4b6c030d4faa63f99b1ceb6f3edcef>). Cheers, Nick Lebedev > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:45:37 +0200 > From: René-Luc Dhont <rldh...@gmail.com> > To: qgis-developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> > Subject: [Qgis-developer] [QGIS Server] Maintain it and create a team > Message-ID: <25bba341-9db8-40eb-7bda-8918c76f7...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Hi devs, > > The Qt4 and Python 2.7 is going away from QGIS master, following this PR: > Require python 3 and qt5 https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3510 > > But a part of the project directly suffered of this: QGIS Server. As > explain on the Pull Request 'Require python 3 and qt5', all the QGIS > Server tests has been disabled. This means that QGIS Server is not > maintained with automatic tests for QGIS 3. > > So Mathias Khun has opened an issue about QGIS 3 API to remove QGIS > Server from QGIS master. > https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/63 > The discussion is opened but I don't know if all the developpers are > aware of this. > > For our team, 3Liz (Michaël, David and I), the QGIS Server is a big part > of the QGIS project and it will really be a pitty if it disappears. A > part of the QGIS users are interesting in it because they can published > web services directly from their work. So QGIS Server is a reason for > them to use QGIS. Many users like the part of using QGIS desktop to > configure easily many options for publication, and use WMS, WFS, WCS and > event WPS with different clients (one of them is Lizmap). > We take much time (and about half of it without funds) to keep this > feature alive and up to date with QGIS improvements, and are willing to > continue down this path (we believe in it and have many good feedbacks > from users) > > We would like to raise interest around QGIS Server, and report here that > this part of QGIS is really used in production by companies and research > centers, and maintained by some devs, and not just a QGIS side project > "for fun". > > We just discussed with Alessandro Pasotti and we would like to create a > team to maintain and discuss about the evolution of QGIS Server. We > would like to use this opportunity to improve QGIS Server and make it > more maintainable and granular. > > Some questions to gather reactions : > * Who is interested in maintaining QGIS Server ? > * Who is interested in participating in QGIS Server (code, ideas, > review, tests) ? > * Please share any ideas to enhance (refactor) QGIS Server > > Regards, > René-Luc D'Hont > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > ------------------------------ > > End of Qgis-developer Digest, Vol 131, Issue 81 > ***********************************************
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