On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 at 19:20, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all > > Here in the infrastructure management club for QGIS we have been embarking on > a plan to slowly divest ourselves of 'big tech'. At the end of last year we > switched off cloudflare CDN and implemented our own caching servers. At that > time we were doing around 130TB of throughput (including what was being > soaked up by Cloudflare). As of last month we did 430TB of throughput without > the help of Cloudflare. > > We are trying to optimise costs - that bandwidth alone cost us in the > neighbourhood of 500€ per month. To reduce costs we can approach the problem > in two way: > > 1. optimise the infrastructure - we (QGIS Devops team) are busy looking into > ways to do that... > 2. reduce the download size... > > We are wondering if the datum shift files could be split out from the main > installer and fetched as an optional extra? Or maybe on demand as you need > them? We could set up some infrastructure for hosting them, but we would need > some help on the application side to implement logic to go and grab shift > files that are not locally cached. Is anyone able to help with this?
Well, we already have quite a user friendly existing workflow in place for advising the user when they should have a grid shift file that isn't currently installed, and a friendly automated GUI based approach for doing the download and install. So IMO we could rip out all the shift files from the installer and fallback to this for everyone. The only downside would be that it relies on internet access, and the download would happen once per user (as opposed to once per organisation if they're bundled). <sarcastic> Or we just embrace the 2026 view of analysis slop[1] and stop caring if results are out by ~50m or have any relation to real-world locations, and rip out the whole proj grid handling logic. No one seems to care about accuracy and quality in mapping or coding anymore anyway. </sarcastic> Nyall [1] eg https://mapdesign.icaci.org/tag/365daysofmaps/ > > Regards > > Tim > > > > > -- > > Tim Sutton > Kartoza Cofounder > Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee > > T : +27(0) 87 809 2702 E : [email protected] W : kartoza.com > > > > This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the > use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you > have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and > delete it from your system. Unauthorised use, disclosure, or copying > of the contents is prohibited. > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
