[OSGeo-Discuss] WCS/WMS accuracy tests?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Dec 7 09:48:00 PST 2009


Steven M. Ottens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Working with Geoserver as a WCS we discovered that requesting a GeoTIFF in
> the same projection as the original GeoTIFF produces a shifted dataset.
> (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3702) The shift is small, less than
> one pixel of the original dataset, but with a coarse dataset of 100m/pixel
> it can be 70meters. The Geoserver people are aware of the problem and at
> some point in time will fix it I'm sure, but it prompted me to test other
> OSS WCS servers (mapserver and deegree). Both of them showed a shift of the
> data as well. Deegree has about the same error as Geoserver, while Mapserver
> does a better job but is still off.
> 
> I know there have been speed tests between different WMS services, but I'm
> wondering has there been any data-quality/accuracy test been done between
> WMS and/or WCS services?

Steven,

I would appreciate your filing a detailed ticket on this issue against
MapServer.  Please be specific about the exact request made, provide the
data and mapfile, and explain why you think the results are wrong.

Best regards,
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