[postgis-users] Commercial/Large datasets - MapServer/PostGISsamplesites

[Eduardo Patto Kanegae]

Hi folks,

Thanks a lot for all the replies you've done and sorry the late answer!

I think now I got enough arguments to mess with their heads,

and I'm quite impressioned about the quality of services using MapServer
around the world.

Thank you again.

best regards,

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
Treinamento & Consultoria em UMN MapServer, PostGIS e FreeGIS Software
http://www.webmapit.com.br
Skype: eduardopattokanegae
ICQ:   303747254
MSN:   eduardo_patto~at~hotmail.com
Phone: +55(16)9994-2928

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Chapman, Martin escreveu:

>Eduardo,
>
>We manage very large datasets (tens of terabytes) of raster and vector
>data as well.  Our clients are the DOD, USGS, USDA, Army Corp of
>Engineers, Navy, etc... .  We use open source exclusively for our
>subsystems, which includes products like PostgreSQL, PostGIS, OSSIM,
>GDAL, Proj4, OpenMap, RedHat Linux, and more.  Our solutions are rock
>solid and out-perform our "commercial" competitors in both speed and
>quality of product.  I came from a Microsoft world and was amazed at the
>high caliber software the open source community creates.  In my mind the
>question isn't an example of open source that shows power and trust, but
>rather what commercial products out there can show the power and trust
>that open source has demonstrated to our company.
>
>Martin Chapman
>Cell 303-885-1936
>Office 303-495-6300 x326
>mchapman at sanz.com
>http://www.sanz.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
>[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
>Gregory S. Williamson
>Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 3:11 PM
>To: PostGIS Users Discussion; MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU; PostGIS
>Users Discussion
>Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Commercial/Large datasets
>MapServer/PostGISsamplesites
>
>
>Eduardo,
>
>A belated response ...
>
>Our company uses postGIS for storing data about our imagery (about 18
>terabytes of image data in some 879000 separate files, growing at a rate
>of almost 2 terabytes a week currently), and for a fairly substantive
>database of vector data (detailed US streets, detailed parcels for
>various counties in the US, watersheds and stream and lake data for the
>country, flood data, etc.). Both image and vector will grow
>substantially as we add more data outside of the US.
>
>Currently the Mapserver implementations are limited to a few of our
>customers, but in the next few months we'll be using Mapserver to serve
>up imagery with vector data to the general public (currently the
>equivalent service is running over 250k hits a day). The new service
>probably won't be quite that heavy at first. We are currently doing load
>testing and related work.
>
>All of this used to be Informix based; cost was the main reason for
>migrating to Open Source.
>
>Not sure if this is heavy enough use to reassure your customer or not.
>
>Greg Williamson
>DBA
>GlobeXplorer LLC
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Eduardo Patto Kanegae [mailto:lists at webmapit.com.br]
>Sent:  Thu 3/17/2005 7:24 AM
>To:    MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU; PostGIS Users Discussion
>Cc:
>Subject:       [postgis-users] Commercial/Large datasets
>MapServer/PostGIS samplesites
>Hi folks,
>
>Here I am again trying to convince a traditional "$pay software"
>consumer to accept free software... :-)
>
>I'm looking for commercial websites or larget data set website to use as
>
>example for the power, and trust of MapServer and PostGIS features.
>
>Can anybody suggest one?
>
>Best.
>
>
>