<div dir="auto"><div>Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, 17:52 Paolo Cavallini, <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Jonathan,<br>
<br>
On 29/06/19 22:19, Jonathan Moules wrote:<br>
<br>
> This is a great intention and is something the FOSS-Geo solutions are<br>
> sorely lacking. I wonder though if it would be much better attained by<br>
> going the *much* simpler (and thus cheaper) path of improving<br>
> integration with the other current solutions (ideally using open<br>
> standards) rather than the much more complicated process and path of<br>
> creating and maintaining an entire server. This also has the added<br>
> benefit of creating a more dynamic and healthy FOSS-Geo ecosystem where<br>
> folks would then have a wide choice of servers.<br>
<br>
we have studied this possibility. Unfortunately, standards are far too<br>
semantically poor to accommodate the increasingly sophisticated graphic<br>
possibilities we have in QGIS. In any case, this will result in a huge<br>
amount of work (every new feature should be implemented twice, natively<br>
and as a standard translation), and results will always be uncertain.<br>
With QGIS server, the same libs are used, so the result is really WISIWYG.<br>
In addition, we are now OGC reference implementation for WMS, so I think<br>
we can only build on top of this important achievement.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">I absolutely agree. This is THE usp of qgis for me. you prepare your project once and have a desktop, server and mobile rendering of the same great quality </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
> A quick back-of-the-envelope investigation shows that of the ~4200 hosts<br>
> of public OGC services in the GeoSeer database, only 4 appear to be QGIS<br>
> server. I'm hoping to do a proper investigation into server software at<br>
> some point in the next few months, but I don't expect the numbers to<br>
> change much.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">a quick "client survey in my mind" gives me a very different result, but that is obviously biased. the nice thing is in any case the growing interests as soon as you show server.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Thanks for this interesting figure, very interesting. It would be quite<br>
useful to have an online stat of qgis-server adoption, would it be<br>
feasible for you to setup a crawl or similar?<br>
<br>
I'm quite sure qgis-server is far less known than it should be (most of<br>
my customers are easily convinced once they see it in action). I believe<br>
we should have an outreach program to make it more widely known.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">yep, qgis server marketing needs some TLC</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Cheers.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">ciao</div><div dir="auto">Marco </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
-- <br>
Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.faunalia.eu</a><br>
<a href="http://QGIS.ORG" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> Chair:<br>
<a href="http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/</a><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Qgis-psc mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc</a></blockquote></div></div></div>