[mapserver-users] deployed mapping engine comparison stats

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Folks,

(Disclosure: I'm the person behind that blog post.)

 > I wonder how this statistics would look like if MapServer had a 
built-in web administration interface like the other competing applications.

The fact MS is so high without it shows it may not be that important, at 
least not to the core audience.

I think the biggest differentiator in the stats between the top three 
may be the fact that MapServers don't have any sort of catalog of 
services or other way to find other services on the box. By which I 
mean, ArcGIS Server allows you to crawl it and get all of the public 
services and datasets. GeoServer if there are namespaces (their way of 
grouping things into services) you can go up a level and see what the 
root is serving, thus potentially finding more datasets and another 
service that way (but only one). But MapServer doesn't have a mechanism 
like that apparently (I asked on this list a couple years ago), which 
means that it's hard to know if I've found everything on a specific box. 
That's the biggest catch with the MapServer stat at least.

Cheers,

Jonathan


On 2020-06-05 20:28, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Very interesting comparison.
> I wonder how this statistics would look like if MapServer had a 
> built-in web administration interface like the other competing 
> applications.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
>
> Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com 
> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jún. 
> 5., P, 18:09):
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>     Something I noticed this morning: MapServer users might be
>     interested in
>     recently published statistics of deployed mapping engine types
>     (ArcGIS,
>     GeoServer, MapServer/MapCache, QGIS Server, etc.) :
>     https://www.geoseer.net/blog/?p=2020-06-04_geospatial_server_software
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>     -jeff
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>     -- 
>     Jeff McKenna
>     MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>     co-founder of FOSS4G
>     http://gatewaygeo.com/
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