Thanks for the summary, this is great feedback. The OGC APIs in general seem ripe for enhancements and I think some cloud focus is a great idea.
Off the top of my head some other important items in my mind are: - getting fuzzing going, either as part as OSSFuzz or some other mechanism (OSGeo infrastructure?) - converting all source files to C++ - but stopping short of a complete rewrite - starting a concerted effort to get our issue list down to a manageable size - perhaps a bug-a-day initiative - MapServer 8.0 OSGeo Live support --Steve On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 2:45 PM Seth G <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Some random notes from discussions with various MapServer users and devs > at FOSS4G. It might help drive discussions at a future PSC meeting. > > - OGC Maps API would ideally be the next big MapServer feature, but this > would require developers and funding > - The R language is popular in the data science community. SWIG supports R > so R-MapScript bindings could possibly be added in a future version. I can > send a message to the users-list to gauge interest. > - MapServer is likely to be used as the rendering engine for the pygeoapi > backend. > - Having to add TEMPLATE "ttt" to layers seems strange to new users. Maybe > something to look at removing or replacing? > - Both CGI and FastCGI are used in production deployments. FastCGI usage > is unaffected by the warm-up times for connecting to proj.db in newer > versions of PROJ, however only CGI can be used in Amazon Lambda > deployments. If no reprojections are required and inline projections are > used, then it may be possible to skip this connection (paraphrasing - and > possible a misunderstanding on my part, but it could be something to > investigate). > - From speaking to users, there are a few misunderstandings and gaps in > docs/tutorials, including: > - how to set up cloud deployments of MapServer > - how multiple Mapfiles are run from a single MapServer instance (there > is no overhead in having several Mapfiles) > - no tutorials on OGC Features setup > - there are many hidden cartographic features (thanks Lars for your talk > that highlighted these!) > > Finally, people are very keen to try out MapServer 8.0, and lots of people > are already using that branch. > > Feel free to comment or add to any of the above. > > Seth > > -- > web:https://geographika.net > twitter: @geographika > _______________________________________________ > MapServer-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev >
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