[Benchmarking] Meeting Summary

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks to everyone for a good meeting today.  If you missed it below is 
a summary of the meeting.  (note that we are in crunch time now, so if 
you haven't examined the sample data and started styling the layers in 
your own engine you should start now, and report your findings to the 
group next week)

-jeff


log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2010-07-14.log

wiki summary: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010#Previous_IRC_meeting

*** Attendance:
**** Jeff McKenna (jmckenna)
**** Andrea Aime (aaime)
**** Iván Sánchez (IvanSanchez)
**** Michael Smith (msmith_)
**** Dimitri Monie (dmonie)
**** Dane Springmeyer (springmeyer)
*** Discussion:
**** data:
***** full dataset of Spain, vector and raster, has been processed by 
IvanSanchez, and he is checking it and will create a torrent for 
transfer, by the end of the week
***** because of shapefile size limit some layers may have to be split 
(contour-1.shp, contour-2.shp)
**** servers:
***** msmith has received both server machines
***** T1 router is being installed, it will be a dedicated line for this 
project
***** he is adding 2 TB drives to each
**** layer styling:
***** we notice that the Spain dataset we are using (BCN25) does not 
include street files (zoomed in road network)
***** we agreed to use contours for curved label tests instead
***** jmckenna will test the layer scales provided by Marco (QGIS mapserver)
***** aaime pointed out problem with the posted SLDs, in terms of the 
label property (jmckenna to look into it)
***** aaime pointed out that we should make sure that all servers 
compute the scales the same way
****** OGC recommends 90 DPI (GeoServer, Mapnik use the recommended 
90...MapServer defaults to 72, but should be configurable)
****** all teams should look into how their engine handles this and 
report to group
**** other:
***** IvanSanchez reported that a Spanish custom-made WMS server may 
join the exercise (they access raster files only)
***** dmonie pointed out that Erdas has been quiet lately because one of 
the team leaders is on holiday