[mapserver-dev] GSoC Ideas for MapServer

[Daniel Morissette]

On 2015-02-20 4:21 PM, Oliver Courtin wrote:
> Le 19 févr. 2015 à 15:35, Even Rouault a écrit :
>
> Hi Even,
>
>> I doubt the overhead introduced by OGR would be really significant if you take
>> into account the whole chain
>
> I you have doubts, i have not :)
> And this not because of OGR itself, but because of an abstraction layer in the middle.
> It would cost (mostly on big GetFeature requests).
>

My 0.02$:

While I can appreciate Olivier's design goals, I can also see the HUGE 
value provided by OGR support in TinyOWS for lots of users, and doing it 
with the help of libs such as GEOS is clearly feasible even if it might 
result in a bridge of (slightly) inferior quality to the support 
provided by the prime backends (PostGIS, Oracle SPatial and SQLite).

The challenge may be a bit big for a GSoC student, but I think we 
shouldn't completely rule out the idea of supporting OGR in TinyOWS if 
the right project and funding became available.

Daniel

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