[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Enter the £21,000 GeoVa tion Awards Program

2009-10-23 Thread Suchith Anand
This might be of interest to some of you. Best wishes, Suchith Anand Dr Suchith Anand Centre for Geospatial Science The Nottingham Geospatial Building University of Nottingham NG7 2 TU Tel: (0)115 84 32750 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/cgs_suchith_anand.html

[OSGeo-Discuss] GovHack 30,31 October - Climate Challenge mashup?

2009-10-23 Thread antti roppola
Hi all, I saw the following on another mailing list I am on thought I'd post it here in case any Climate Plugfest people are reading: -8---8 GovHack is a free, intensive day and a half exploring ways of creating mashups and

[OSGeo-Discuss] A brief survey of the kind of data you use in your daily work

2009-10-23 Thread P Kishor
http://www.punkish.org/Raw-Data-vs-Interpreted-Data/ Really, only 5 questions, almost no thinking required. I will give you your money back if it takes you more than a minute to answer. So, no matter what your field of study, research or work, please take a few moments to answer the questions at

[OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results

2009-10-23 Thread Jeff McKenna
For those that did not make it to Sydney, here is the WMS Performance Shootout presentation with results (GeoServer vs MapServer): http://www.slideshare.net/gatewaygeomatics.com/wms-performance-shootout MapServer: power users who manage MapServer sites with high loads/map draws should take

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results

2009-10-23 Thread Craig Miller
Anyone know why Mapguide OS wasn't represented? I'd be happy to set one up if there is a conference in my area (Seattle/Vancouver BC area). Craig -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna Sent: Friday,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Spencer
Unfortunately, no one stepped up to represent mapguide. Cheers Paul On 2009-10-23, at 9:28 PM, Craig Miller wrote: Anyone know why Mapguide OS wasn't represented? I'd be happy to set one up if there is a conference in my area (Seattle/Vancouver BC area). Craig -Original

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results

2009-10-23 Thread antti roppola
It was really interesting. The very close results suggests to me that the bottlenecks were external to the WMS and more related to external limitations like the ability to supply things like I/O. It would be interesting to have profiling data on where the response time was spent. For Mapserver

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results

2009-10-23 Thread Craig Miller
I agree wholeheartedly. It looks like the bottleneck was the database. I've been privy to some MapServer tests done by testing teams over several months and the result there was always deploying the data with long update cycles to the middle tier disks instead of using the database. Only then

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WMS Performance Shootout presentation/results

2009-10-23 Thread Andrea Aime
Craig Miller ha scritto: I agree wholeheartedly. It looks like the bottleneck was the database. I’ve been privy to some MapServer tests done by testing teams over several months and the result there was always deploying the data with long update cycles to the middle tier disks instead of

[OSGeo-Discuss] code sprint before or after the conference

2009-10-23 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
Hi list, today I was at the code sprint in Sydney, and after a whole week of conference with the associated beers and late nights, nothing much productive came out of me unfortunately, which was to be expected. So for next year in Barcelona, I would really appreciate it if the code sprint