[Live-demo] Re-categorising OSGeo-Live projects

[Peter Baumann]

Cameron-

sorry for the silence, just now I can come back on this again.

 From a client perspective, we share WCS support; the differentiating criterion 
I see as follows (EOX, please correct if necessary):
- EOxServer's main mission is EO-WCS, and it also supports WCS;
- rasdaman's main mission is WCPS, and it also supports WCS (being candidate 
reference implementation for WCS Core).

Now we have 2 categories, "services" and "data stores", which clearly overlap - 
essentially, any DBMS is a potential service as well. Also, both file-based and 
DBMS-based stores offer OGC services, so again a difficult distinction. Finally, 
the "Web Services" also store their data somehow :) so "Storing spatial 
data"this is not a clear criterion either.

Hence, a suggestion: introduce 2 service categories (I think service is a main 
aspect of this whole category):
- file-based services
     MapServer -- as an example
- database-backed services
     rasdaman -- multi-dimensional raster database offering OGC WMS, WCS, WCS-T, 
WCPS, and WPS

Just some thought,
Peter



On 12/12/2012 11:04 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Peter,
> Coming back to this question of categorisation. It seems that EOxServer is 
> similar to Rasdaman, and probably should be listed next to it? Is that 
> reasonable?
>
> If so, should both EOxServer and Rasdaman be categorised under "Data Stores" 
> or under Web Services?
>
> To make that decision, I'd consider how people are most likely to access each 
> application. If it is via a Web Service, then I'd err toward a Web Service 
> categorisation.
>
> On 10/12/12 07:14, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> I agree with Peter: rasdaman is better categorized under DBMS.  OGC web 
>> services are extra functionality in rasdaman.
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 12/09/2012 09:34 PM, Peter Baumann wrote:
>>> Cameron-
>>>
>>> re rasdaman, it is a DBMS indeed, in the same category as PostGIS. For 
>>> example, rasdaman comes with a multi-dimensional spatio-temporal query 
>>> language; in terms of OGC standards, WCS is just one rather limited 
>>> functionality, there's also WMS, WCPS, and WPS.
>>>
>>
>
>

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