Benchmarking 2011/MeetingLog

= Benchmarking 2011 IRC Meetings =
* Wed July 27th, 2011 @ [log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2011-07-27.log]
** attendance:
*** Dane Springmeyer - Mapnik
*** Jeff McKenna - MapServer
*** Pirmin Kalberer - QGIS mapserver
*** Mike Smith - Hardware / MapServer / Oracle MapViewer
*** Martin Daly - Cadcorp GeognoSIS
** Summary
*** OSM styling discussion
**** Mapnik will write a script to parse existing osm mapfile
**** GeognoSIS will use existing SLDs
**** mpdaly noted that some tables lack ID field (QGIS complains about this)
**** jmckenna suggested running a psql command to add OIDs to all tables
**** springmeyer looking for some cached tiles of the style to use
**** QGIS Server is currently implementing the OSM style
** Actions
*** jmckenna: contact GeoServer/Gabriel about status
*** jmckenna: contact Constellation-SDI about status
*** mdsmith: activate windows on BM server
*** mdsmith: contact Oracle MapViewer team about status
*** all: continue styling of OSM data (see examples here)
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* Wed April 20th, 2011 @ [log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2011-04-20.log]
** Agenda:
*** Create plan for vector (OSM) and raster (DEM) data processing
*** Discuss testing methodology
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* Wed February 23rd, 2011 [log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2011-02-23.log]
** Agenda:
*** Create plan for vector (OSM) and raster (DEM) data processing
*** Discuss testing methodology
*** final presentation discussion
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* Wed February 16th, 2011 (log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2011-02-16.log)
** attendance:
*** Dane Springmeyer - Mapnik
*** Jeff McKenna - MapServer
*** Alex Wong - ERDAS
*** Pirmin Kalberer - QGIS mapserver
*** Mike Smith - Hardware / MapServer / Oracle MapViewer
** Summary
*** final presentation discussion
**** springmeyer and jmckenna to submit abstract for presentation today or tomorrow
**** aaime sent message to jmckenna urging the use of the mailing list more by all teams
*** data sources discussion
**** springmeyer pointed out that some generalizing occurs with the osm2ogsql tool
**** springmeyer suggests 3 types of OpenStreetMap tests: data in shapefile (cloudmade extracts), data in PostGIS (osm2pgsql), and then a "best effort" (data in any format)
**** pirmin_k noted that osm2pgsql tool does not work well for QGIS 
*** testing process discussion
**** covered in data discussion above
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* Wed February 9th, 2011 (log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2011-02-09.log)
** attendance:
*** Marco Hugentobler - QGIS mapserver
*** Jeff McKenna - MapServer
*** Gabriel Roldan - GeoServer
*** Alex Wong - ERDAS
*** Mike Smith - Hardware / MapServer / Oracle MapViewer
*** Martin Daly - Cadcorp
** Summary
*** data sources discussion
**** teams voted in support of using OpenStreetMap data for Colorado for vector
**** for raster, mpdaly suggests using DEMs
***** mdsmith suggests USGS Seamless NED or NAIP, and he also gets snowpack data daily
*** testing process discussion
**** teams support the plan to test only best effort, with data in format of your choice, but data must retain original detail (no generalizing)
**** continued discussion on testing tilecaching by servers...with the goal being to enhance how each server handles labelling on tiles
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* Wed February 2nd, 2011 (log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2011-02-02.log)
** attendance:
*** Marco Hugentobler - QGIS mapserver
*** Mike Smith - Hardware / MapServer / Oracle MapViewer
*** Alex Wong - ERDAS
*** Daniel Morissette - MapServer
*** Martin Daly - Cadcorp
*** Jeff McKenna - MapServer
** Summary
*** data sources discussion
**** unknown if suggested SPOT imagery can be distributed freely to the public
**** we should probably use local Denver/Colorado data
**** possibility of using U.S. Census TIGER data for Colorado 
**** the benchmarking exercise in 2009 used TIGER data for Texas
**** mpdaly suggests using OpenStreetMap data
**** sample styling of MapServer using OSM data for Colorado already exists: map on http://www.mapserver.org/trunk/
*** testing process discussion
**** marco suggested that we have separate tests for point/line/poly, in addition to other tests
**** all teams voted to accept that we would only present a subset of the tests (we will decide what subset to use later)
**** mdsmith suggests testing tilecache seeding for each server...testing how the server's labeling engine handles edges of tiles
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* Wed January 12th, 2011 (log: http://logs.qgis.org/foss4g/%23foss4g.2011-01-12.log)
** attendance:
*** Andrea Aaime - GeoServer
*** Jeff McKenna - MapServer
*** Pirmin Kalberer - QGIS mapserver
*** Marco Hugentobler - QGIS mapserver
*** Mike Smith - Hardware / MapServer / Oracle MapViewer
*** Anne-Sophie Collignon - Erdas
*** Daniel Morissette - MapServer
*** Adrian Custer - Undetermined
*** Andreas Schmitz - Deegree
*** Martin Daly - Cadcorp
*** Jean-Francois Faudi - Data
*** Ivan Sanchez - Vocals
** Summary
*** acuster: relayed that ESRI is still discussing internally about commitment
*** mdsmith: servers are now in our new datacenter and in racks. they are on ups + standby generator
*** discussion on data sources
**** jeffaudi: can supply 100 tiles of 1GB GeoTIFF imagery (SPOT)
*** all agreed data and styles need to be prepared soon
*** suggestion that testing methodology needs to be redesigned
*** teams will be allowed to join the exercise late, but must follow the rules of engagement (they can propose changes, but teams are not required to follow)
Category:FOSS4G2011