[Live-demo] New MapProxy package

[Cameron Shorter]

Oliver,
Some good answers below.

One thing I missed was the size and activity of the community behind 
MapProxy. Could you please say a few words about that.

Then on a technical level, I'm interested to understand how MapProxy 
compares with GeoWebCache and MapTiler, which I think both provide 
similar functionality.


On 25/05/2011 5:33 PM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I would like to see MapProxy on the next LiveDVD and Astrid was so kind
> to remind me to apply :)
>
>> Please describe your application.
>> What is its name?
>> What is the home page URL?
>> Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
>> What does the application do and how does it add value to the
>> GeoSpatial stack of software?
> MapProxy (http://mapproxy.org) is an open source proxy for geospatial
> data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map
> services and serves any desktop or web GIS client. MapProxy is a tile
> cache solution, but also offers many new and innovative features like
> full support for WMS clients. It is released under the OSI approved GNU
> AGPL License 3.0.
>
>
>> Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user finds a
>> bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all other
>> OSGeo-Live applications as well. Do you have a bug free, stable release,
>> which has been rolled out to production in a number of locations? Please
>> discuss the level of testing that your project has gone through, the
>> size of the community that uses the application, and how long the
>> project has had mature code.
> The project started 2.5 years ago and was released as open source a year
> ago. We make heavy use of automated unit and system tests
> http://ci.mapproxy.org/. The project has a release cycle with major,
> minor and bug fix releases and we publish beta and rc releases.
>
> MapProxy is used for the german broad band atlas
> (http://www.zukunft-breitband.de/BBA/Navigation/Breitbandatlas/breitbandsuche.html)
> and various other governmental SDI projects.
>
>
>> OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather than
>> libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
>> command line interface) that a user can interact with?
> MapProxy is a server that can be started from command line. It comes
> with a simple demo web frontend. See
> http://osm.omniscale.net/proxy/demo/
>
>
>> We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which are
>> presented at FOSS4G conferences. If your project is involved in OSGeo
>> Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then
>> please mention it.
> I'm giving a tutorial session in Denver.
>
>
>> With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core packagers
>> do not have the time to liaise with every single project email list for
>> each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to take
>> responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's
>> communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
>> scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each
>> OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and
>> Quickstart documentation works as expected on release candidate releases
>> of OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person.
> That would be me, the core developer of MapProxy.
>
>
>> OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
>> Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
>> Install .deb files from a PPA
>> Write a custom install script
>> Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
> I have a working install.sh script, but we might get a .deb package
> ready till feature freeze.
>
>
>> We include Windows and Mac installers for some applications. Would you
>> be wishing to include Windows and/or Mac installers?
> It is not that difficult to install MapProxy on a Windows/Mac system, so
> probably no.
>
>
>> OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run in
>> 512 Meg of RAM?
> Yes.
>
>
>> How much disk space will be required to install the application and a
>> suitable example application?
> A few MB (<10) for the application.
>
>
>> We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of a
>> common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the example
>> datasets already installed:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If
>> another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
>> appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be
>> included in the standard release.
> I will provide example configurations that will use the
> existing map servers on the LiveDVD (Mapserver, Mapnik, GeoServer), so
> there is no need for additional data.
>
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>


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