[Live-demo] Adding tinyows to OSGEO-Live

[Cameron Shorter]

Olivier, thank you for the clarifications.
Based on your answers, I'm +1 for including tinyows on osgeo-live.
Lets give the community 48 hours to vote for or against.

On 8/06/2011 9:38 AM, Olivier Courtin wrote:
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> On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:14 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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>
> Cameron,
>
>>>> Are there any notable risk adverse agencies using this application? 
>>>> Please mention them.
>>>
>>> As the aim is mainly to give write access to PostGIS data through a 
>>> Web Service,
>>> the main risk, as a desktop application, is data corruption.
>>> (on a server production, it's SQL Injection)
>>
>> I think you have mis-understood my question here. I'm actually 
>> looking to hear examples of organisations who use tinyows. The type 
>> of users is often an indication of the quality of the project, as 
>> certain users, such as many government agencies, will only accept 
>> high quality software.
>
>
> Indeed it was a real misunderstood :)
>
>
> Some European organizations who already use it:
>
> - Romania Agricultur agency
>   http://www.apia.org.ro
>   It's an application for farmers (about one million) who want to apply
>   for area based EU subsidies in Romania.
>   (up to 3.800 concurrent users)
>
> - Bruxelles area administration (Belgium province)
>   http://www.bruxellesenvironnement.be
>   INSPIRE context, aim is to provide WFS service,
>   for more than 300 PostGIS layers
>
> We also known few others organisations who use it, but who don't
> want to communicate on their Open Source apps.
>
>
> Some well known GIS companies who use it,
> and involved somehow in the project:
> - DMSolutions
> - Faunalia
> - Oslandia
> - MapGears
> - Sourcepole
>
>
>
>>> A more complete code review is available here,
>>> http://mapserver.org/es/development/rfc/ms-rfc-70.html
>>
>> I notice that tinyows is likely to be used mainly with mapserver.
>
> Server side its a common use case indeed
> On the other hand client side QGIS or OpenLayers are oftenly used.
>
>> Are there any plans to import into the mapserver codebase at some 
>> point? (which would be a positive for the project).
>> Or possibly become owned by the mapserver project? (also a positive 
>> sign from a user acceptance point of view)
>
> It have been discussed on Montreal Code Sprint and on Mapserver-dev,
> for now the related RFC is not (yet) voted, so nothing official at 
> this point.
>
>
>
> Nota; TInyOWS  FoSS4G 2011 presentation was just accepted.
>
> -- 
> Olivier


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