[mapserver-users] A Thank You

Tue May 28 12:28:05 PDT 2013

I'll just put out there that the State of Maine's entire orthoimagery collection is served out to our users via WMS from MapServer (MS4W to be precise).  You can see this on our data catalog www.maine.gov/megis<http://www.maine.gov/megis> - anything with the WMS logo.  Using a file-based approach with MapServer as the rendering engine saved us over $100,000 per year.  We are averaging 14,000 requests per business day and recently passed the 10 million mark total.  People running ArcGIS probably don't even realize they are consuming imagery rendered with open-source software.  The actual URLs (for non-Esri clients) are on the 'Online Maps and Services' page.

Furthermore, the processing of imagery to get it WMS-ready is all done with GDAL/OGR scripting and just a wee bit of ArcGIS.

We also increasingly use front-end FOSS4G components like GeoMoose and our premiere application (orthoimagery and basemap viewer) is GeoMoose.

So good stuff and yes it's certainly being used in the 'real world'.  Thanks!

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Michael Smith MS GISP
State GIS Manager, Maine Office of GIS
State of Maine, Office of Information Technology
michael.smith _at_ maine.gov 207-215-5530

Board Member, Maine GeoLibrary
Education Chair, Maine GIS Users Group
State Rep, National States Geographic Information Council
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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Donald Kerr
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:57 PM
To: 'Jeff McKenna'; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] A Thank You

Jeff,

"I feel it's as important to promote the software users as well"

It would be good to have a "Case studies" page showing the varied environments and uses to which the software is put. Not necessarily live online sites, as I assume many are not internet facing, but something to show the depth of use.

Regards,

Donald

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[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna

Sent: 28 May 2013 19:45

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Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] A Thank You

On 2013-05-28 3:25 PM, lfilak at medinaco.org<mailto:lfilak at medinaco.org> wrote:

> Good day.

> I wanted to forward a thank you from our end-users to the developers,

> maintainers & repository maintainers.

> We recently updated from 5.0 to 6.0 and although it's not the latest

> version the users really like the AGG output vs. the GD output we've

> used in the past.

> Kudos to all.

>

> Lowell

>

And thanks to you Lowell, for pushing this FOSS4G use in your corporate environment.

I'm also curious to know what platforms and packages of MapServer your infrastructure runs on, at the development and production levels?  (I've seen you on here mentioning Windows before)

On my side, I feel it's as important to promote the software users as well.

Thanks,

-jeff

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Jeff McKenna

MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

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