<div dir="ltr">That's probably a result of what drove MapServer development early on. MapServer itself is just a binary (CGI/FCGI) that can do stuff as simple as making simple inset maps or scalebars to distributing maps and data using OGC services with plenty of variations in between. Each call is discrete and there are no long running processes. A single deployment could serve dozens of wide-ranging purposes and in that situation a catalog makes no sense. Those "purposes" often only make sense with the context of the application that uses them. Closest thing to a catalog would be GetCapability responses. Then of course you have MapScript applications that would be difficult, if not impossible, to identify as being related to MapServer.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 11:56 AM 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Folks,</p>
<p>(Disclosure: I'm the person behind that blog post.)</p>
<p>> I wonder how this statistics would look like if MapServer
had a built-in web administration interface like the other
competing applications.</p>
<p>The fact MS is so high without it shows it may not be that
important, at least not to the core audience.</p>
<p>I think the biggest differentiator in the stats between the top
three may be the fact that MapServers don't have any sort of
catalog of services or other way to find other services on the
box. By which I mean, ArcGIS Server allows you to crawl it and get
all of the public services and datasets. GeoServer if there are
namespaces (their way of grouping things into services) you can go
up a level and see what the root is serving, thus potentially
finding more datasets and another service that way (but only one).
But MapServer doesn't have a mechanism like that apparently (I
asked on this list a couple years ago), which means that it's hard
to know if I've found everything on a specific box. That's the
biggest catch with the MapServer stat at least.<br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Jonathan<br>
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<div>On 2020-06-05 20:28, Tamas Szekeres
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<div dir="ltr">Very interesting comparison.
<div>I wonder how this statistics would look like if MapServer
had a built-in web administration interface like the other
competing applications.
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>Tamas</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>>
ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jún. 5., P, 18:09):<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote">Something I noticed this
morning: MapServer users might be interested in <br>
recently published statistics of deployed mapping engine types
(ArcGIS, <br>
GeoServer, MapServer/MapCache, QGIS Server, etc.) : <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>
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-jeff<br>
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Jeff McKenna<br>
MapServer Consulting and Training Services<br>
co-founder of FOSS4G<br>
<a href="http://gatewaygeo.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gatewaygeo.com/</a><br>
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