[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Web clients

[Cédric Moullet]

Hi Cameron,
I would be happy to bring my input regarding MapFish.
Cédric

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Pieter, good to hear your interest and to hear that geomajas would be
> covered.
> Anyone interested to step forward for Openlayers, Mapfish or MabBender?
>
> What should be compared between web clients?
> Think of the target audience for such a comparison being a software
> developer trying to decide which webmapping framework to use. What would be
> the questions they ask?
>
> Off the top of my head:
> * What browsers are supported/tested against for each stable release?
>
> * How responsive is the application?
> ** How large is the javascript which needs to be downloaded to the browser?
> **
>
> * What basemaps are supported
> ** Google Maps, WMS, WFS, ...
>
> * What tools are supported?
> ** Pan/Zoom/Edit Feature ...
>
>
>
> Pieter De Graef wrote:
>
>> Cameron,
>>
>> if the others are too, I would be interested in such a comparison.
>> My main question wouls be, exactly what would we be testing? Performance
>> (how?), functionality, ease-of-use, architecture, ....
>>
>> I still have to check my schedule, but I believe I can set aside a enough
>> time. I will already forward this mail to the Geomajas mailing list, to
>> check for response there.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cameron Shorter schreef:
>>
>>> German Carillo has been building a gis web client comparison which will
>>> make a good basis for a foss4g presentation here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to contact German so that we can thank him, and
>>> invite him to participate in a FOSS4G presentation?
>>>
>>> Who else would be available to help out with a browser comparison for the
>>> various projects?
>>>
>>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April 2010 and I'm hoping
>>>> that we will see abstracts for:
>>>>
>>>> * LiveDVD lightening overview
>>>> * WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout
>>>> * Desktop comparison
>>>> * Browser Client comparison
>>>> * Database comparison
>>>>
>>>> I predict that these presentations will be by far the most popular
>>>> presentations of the conference. Further, I'm expecting to incorporate
>>>> results onto the LiveDVD. They will be a lot of effort to prepare, partly
>>>> because they will need a team of project developers to contribute to it, and
>>>> consequently, unless we get our act together soon, I suspect that no-one
>>>> will submit presentations for some of the topics above.
>>>>
>>>> So I encourage people to respond to the following targeted email
>>>> threads, noting your intention to help and be part of one of the
>>>> presentation teams. (Note, the presentation will be the easy bit, the hard
>>>> bit will be collating the material for the presentation).
>>>>
>>>> A good team for these comparison projects will consist of:
>>>>
>>>> * a representative from each project in the comparison. These types of
>>>> comparisons will be the first place new users will go when researching
>>>> software, so are well worth participating in.
>>>> * users who have used more than one of the applications
>>>> * anyone involved in related comparison reviews, or development of
>>>> feature tables or similar
>>>> * coordinator/"get it done" people who can pull it all together
>>>> * people who can speak well, and efficiently. (You will have lots of
>>>> material to present is a short time)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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