Hi,
I work for an LBS based company, we have our own proprietary rendering
engine for producing maps, and we work mainly with data from Navteq and
TomTom. Presently our rendering engine is behind the competition in
terms of visual quality (we have a bad support for antialiasing, label
names with both native and transliterate names are missing, and so on).
Introducing new features in our current rendering architecture would
require quite a lot of coding and re-engineering, so we are looking for
alternative renderers, possibly open sourced. During this research
project I first came across Mapserver, then I studied GeoServer and its
several features. I like very much the extensive built in support for
open services like WMS and the other OGC standards, and in terms of
render quality GeoServer would suit very much our needs.
I still have some questions I would like to ask.
In regards to rendering:
1) Is there any way to align labels in different encondings for the same
city? I mean something like writing ??????? and /Moskvá /vertically
aligned, like on Google Maps. In Mapserver I can have this behaviour
both with Mapfile sintax and working with the labels on the DB side, is
it the same for GeoServer?
2) I examined the maps of the Portland city project (Trimet), they are
really stilish, and I noticed the buildings are represented in a
prospective-like fashion, as in Google Maps. Is this feature built in in
GeoServer?
In regards to working with high loads of data:
1) We render our maps from data provided by vendors like Navteq, and
they have a lot of details and features. Is there anyone working in the
same field, who could share some of his experience?
2) I examined the case studies cited in the documentation, it seems to
me that the hardware requirements for GeoServer to run smoothly with
high loads of data are higher then with Mapserver. Currently we are able
to provide all our services (mapping, geocoding, routing...) with just
two dual quad core Xeon servers, with 16G ram and a SAS array for data
(file based). Would this be sufficient to run GeoServer with a PostGis
or Spatial backend, or would we need to buy more hardware?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Regards,
Paolo Crosato
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Paolo Crosato
Ubiest SPA
http://www.ubiest.com
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