[OSGeo-Discuss] [Analysis] Geospatial server deployment statistics

[Jody Garnett]

That is really interesting Jonathan, if you are open to cross posting it
would be nice to reference this from a GeoServer blog post.

I especially liked the fingerprinting:

> A ridiculously long, 5000+ item list of default projections that the
> server supports that 1 in 6 GeoServer administrators hasn't culled


Surprisingly nobody has made a motion to start with a smaller list, and I
think we found that if we provided a smaller list folks assume GeoServer is
less capable.
What do other WMS implementations do?
--
Jody Garnett


On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 11:32, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
> At the risk of engaging in self-promotion, this may be of interest to
> the community.
>
> I've just finished an analysis of what geospatial server software's
> behind the ~2.2 million WMS/WFS/WCS/WMTS datasets that GeoSeer has in
> its search-engine index.
>
> The extremely short version of things likely of interest here:
>
> * ArcGIS has by far the most deployments: 2,755 (53.70%); other
> proprietary is a rounding error.
>
> * GeoServer is the second most popular for deployments (964 (18.79%)),
> and hosts by far the most datasets: 963,603 (43.26%).
>
> * MapServer has a very healthy deployment count too: 544 (10.6%), and
> serves a considerable number of datasets: 389,709 (17.49%).
>
> * Put another way, at least 2/3rds of the world's geospatial data that's
> served via OGC standards is served by Open Source software (mostly
> OSGeo). And over 60% between GeoServer and MapServer alone.
>
> * So basically it looks like many city/county/provincials have an ArcGIS
> Server install and use that for (occasionally token!) compliance with
> "open data" edicts, but the full-on SDI data warehouses almost all go
> for Open Source.
>
> You can find (much) more detail (+ numbers for a bunch of the other
> OSGeo projects) in the (ad-free, tracking-free, cookie-free,
> javascript-free, in fact both free and Free!) blog post:
> https://www.geoseer.net/blog/?p=2020-06-04_geospatial_server_software
>
>
> So yes, good job to everyone who contributes in any way to all these
> projects! Hopefully this reinforces how useful they are; maybe you can
> use it in future work-bids too (its the sort of thing that reassures
> management). Could also be be useful when it comes to figuring out where
> limited OSGeo funds will have most impact.
>
> Comments/thoughts/discussion/feedback welcome (on or off list).
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
>
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