[Benchmarking] abstract for FOSS4G

Dane Springmeyer dane at dbsgeo.com
Mon Apr 12 15:49:44 EDT 2010


Hi Jeff,

Thanks for taking the lead on this - looks great!

Only correction would be to spell Mapnik with a lowercase n.

Cheers,

Dane

On Apr 12, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> With the deadline for abstracts approaching (15 April), we should  
> submit an abstract for the performance shootout.  Looking at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010 
>  we have teams from GeoServer, MapServer, and Mapnik committed as of  
> now, so here is an updated abstract:
>
> ************
> Title: Web Mapping Performance Shoot-out
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> Abstract
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>
> This is the latest installment in an annual series of benchmarks and  
> presentations that pit Open Source and other Web mapping servers  
> against one another in a suite of performance tests. The  
> presentation seeks to find out the optimal software configurations  
> and to compare the performance in different real world use cases,  
> which might include handling large datasets, Open Street Map (OSM)  
> rendering, and attribute labeling. At the minimum, MapServer,  
> GeoServer, and MapNik will be compared, as well as different back- 
> end data sources, such as PostGIS and Shapefiles. [Other Web mapping  
> servers may also be added to the exercise, pending participation by  
> their community members]
>
> Presenters: Andrea Aime and Jeff McKenna
> ************
>
> Andrea, are you willing to do the presentation with me again?  If so  
> I can submit this abstract.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -jeff
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