Hi Cameron,<br>I would be happy to bring my input regarding MapFish.<br>Cédric<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Pieter, good to hear your interest and to hear that geomajas would be covered.<br>
Anyone interested to step forward for Openlayers, Mapfish or MabBender?<br>
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What should be compared between web clients?<br>
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?<br>
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* What browsers are supported/tested against for each stable release?<br>
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* How responsive is the application?<br>
** How large is the javascript which needs to be downloaded to the browser?<br>
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* What basemaps are supported<br>
** Google Maps, WMS, WFS, ...<br>
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* What tools are supported?<br>
** Pan/Zoom/Edit Feature ...<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Pieter De Graef wrote:<br>
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Cameron,<br>
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if the others are too, I would be interested in such a comparison.<br>
My main question wouls be, exactly what would we be testing? Performance (how?), functionality, ease-of-use, architecture, ....<br>
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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.<br>
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Cameron Shorter schreef:<br>
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German Carillo has been building a gis web client comparison which will make a good basis for a foss4g presentation here:<br>
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<a href="http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en" target="_blank">http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en</a> <br>
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Does anyone know how to contact German so that we can thank him, and invite him to participate in a FOSS4G presentation?<br>
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Who else would be available to help out with a browser comparison for the various projects?<br>
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Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
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Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April 2010 and I'm hoping that we will see abstracts for:<br>
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* LiveDVD lightening overview<br>
* WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout<br>
* Desktop comparison<br>
* Browser Client comparison<br>
* Database comparison<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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A good team for these comparison projects will consist of:<br>
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* 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.<br>
* users who have used more than one of the applications<br>
* anyone involved in related comparison reviews, or development of feature tables or similar<br>
* coordinator/"get it done" people who can pull it all together<br>
* people who can speak well, and efficiently. (You will have lots of material to present is a short time)<br>
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