Great to see the shootout results.
Also interesting to see the Amazon RDS announcement (MySQL based) with
possibility of using quadruple extra large EC2 instances: db.m2.4xlarge - 68
GB of RAM
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/introducing-rds-the-amazon-relational-dat
abase-service-.html
ht
Cloud options are looking interesting.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Windows, Linux, Solaris options
I imagine ESRI license entanglement with virtual servers could be a problem.
But no problem at all with Open Source GIS stacks. No license to get tangled
with load balancing and auto scaling where
I know this is not OS but GoogleChart is easy to use:
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:20,40,30,10&chs=250x100&chl=
Hello|World|of|Google
and it can be used to add chart icons for use in online mapping interfaces,
not necessarily Google's, and no
Hi,
This brings to mind an additional point. Even though OS GIS tends to
be a patchwork of projects that demand a good deal of experience from its
users, it also gives you infinite extensibility.
From a business perspective, this affords a proficient user of OS
the ability to exp
It might be good to add a geoserver layer into the stack between PostGIS and
client. Then you can publish into Google Earth, Google Maps, Virtual
Earth/LiveMaps, or your own homegrown html, SVG, WPF, Silverlight whatever
... as well as OpenLayers. Paper can be the clients choice if you add a
pdf/
Sorry for the previous blank post.
Open source is a great boon to small business innovation, as others
have pointed out. Anyone dependent on small business consulting/contracting
will have plenty of uses for open source tools.
I have also used Jump in place of ArcView for shp vie
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Tyler,
You know I can't pass up an opportunity to talk about myself. :] I don
I noticed OGC finalized the WPS spec:
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/843
Does anyone know of projects working on WPS implementations?
The goal of WPS is apparently to provide a consistent framework for
interchangeable service process algorithms that can potentially be
Hi Bruce,
"What approaches are people using with large Lidar datasets?"
You might take a look at the WeoGeo group. They are a commercial operation,
not FOSS, but they are throwing dedicated AWS instances at the issue of
lidar file serving. The dedicated instance, I gather, is for the sole u
he local
> > instance avoiding the S3 proxy idea. The reason I don't like that idea
is
> > the imagery has to be loaded with every instance creation while an S3
> > approach would need only one copy.
> >
> >
> > randy
> >
> > -Original M
e Randy. I am sorry to intrude the
conversation but I would like to ask how that "heavy raster"
manipulation would be treated by PostgreSQL/PostGIS, managed or unmanaged?
Best regards,
Ivan
Randy George wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
>
>
> On the "scale r
Hi Bruce,
On the "scale relatively quickly" front, you should look at
Amazon's EC2/S3 services. I've recently worked with it and find it an
attractive platform for scaling http://www.cadmaps.com/gisblog
The stack I like is Ubuntu+Java+ Postgresql/PostGIS + Apache2 mod_jk Tom
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