<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">That is really interesting Jonathan, if you are open to cross posting it would be nice to reference this from a GeoServer blog post.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I especially liked the fingerprinting:</div><div dir="ltr"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A ridiculously long, 5000+ item list of default projections that the server supports that 1 in 6 GeoServer administrators hasn't culled</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Surprisingly nobody has made a motion to start with a smaller list, and I think we found that if we provided a smaller list folks assume GeoServer is less capable.</div><div>What do other WMS implementations do?<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 11:32, Jonathan Moules <<a href="mailto:jonathan-lists@lightpear.com">jonathan-lists@lightpear.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
At the risk of engaging in self-promotion, this may be of interest to <br>
the community.<br>
<br>
I've just finished an analysis of what geospatial server software's <br>
behind the ~2.2 million WMS/WFS/WCS/WMTS datasets that GeoSeer has in <br>
its search-engine index.<br>
<br>
The extremely short version of things likely of interest here:<br>
<br>
* ArcGIS has by far the most deployments: 2,755 (53.70%); other <br>
proprietary is a rounding error.<br>
<br>
* GeoServer is the second most popular for deployments (964 (18.79%)), <br>
and hosts by far the most datasets: 963,603 (43.26%).<br>
<br>
* MapServer has a very healthy deployment count too: 544 (10.6%), and <br>
serves a considerable number of datasets: 389,709 (17.49%).<br>
<br>
* Put another way, at least 2/3rds of the world's geospatial data that's <br>
served via OGC standards is served by Open Source software (mostly <br>
OSGeo). And over 60% between GeoServer and MapServer alone.<br>
<br>
* So basically it looks like many city/county/provincials have an ArcGIS <br>
Server install and use that for (occasionally token!) compliance with <br>
"open data" edicts, but the full-on SDI data warehouses almost all go <br>
for Open Source.<br>
<br>
You can find (much) more detail (+ numbers for a bunch of the other <br>
OSGeo projects) in the (ad-free, tracking-free, cookie-free, <br>
javascript-free, in fact both free and Free!) blog post:<br>
<a href="https://www.geoseer.net/blog/?p=2020-06-04_geospatial_server_software" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.geoseer.net/blog/?p=2020-06-04_geospatial_server_software</a><br>
<br>
<br>
So yes, good job to everyone who contributes in any way to all these <br>
projects! Hopefully this reinforces how useful they are; maybe you can <br>
use it in future work-bids too (its the sort of thing that reassures <br>
management). Could also be be useful when it comes to figuring out where <br>
limited OSGeo funds will have most impact.<br>
<br>
Comments/thoughts/discussion/feedback welcome (on or off list).<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jonathan<br>
<br>
<br>
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