[Benchmarking] 2013 Shootout?

[Martin Daly]

> maybe this year we do a deegree, MapServer shootout?  Any other
> interested development teams lurking???

I'm interested, but I'm not sure at the moment that we can commit. However, because you will be in my playground, I do have a couple of ideas.

First, for data we/you could use OS OpenData:

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/discover.html

The data goes from (raster) MiniScale at ~1:1 000 000 to OS VectorMap District (raster or vector) down to ~1: 15 000. It is the same data that is used in OS OpenSpace:

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/support/web-services/code-playground.html

SLD files are available for all products, as far as I know.

Second, we/you could use the OS OpenSpace tiling scheme, instead of the normal web map one. It is interesting for a few reasons: it uses a grown-up CRS (British National Grid, EPSG 27700); it has resolutions that are not powers of two; and it has more than one tile size (on different tiling levels that is; they are homogenous on a single tile level, obviously).

I can provide the details if you are interested.

Martin

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