[Freegis-list] Seamless raster base-map of Europe 2000 now available on the Baltic GIS Portal

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Ari,

On Tue, 16 May 2006 13:16:49 +0300 Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at tkk.fi> wrote:

> Gedas Vaitkus wrote:
> > Dear Stephan,
> >
> > Yes, I certainly have plans to do so. However, right now we lack 
> > hardware to set up a server with a capacity to run WMS with that
> > amount of data. Software luckily is no longer a problem. I will use
> > HostGIS Linux - a complete and highly efficient open source
> > platform - for this purpose. The Baltic GIS Portal is actually
> > running on HostGIS  Linux right now. So, just a hardware issue is
> > to be solved. In case if there are no immediate sponsors, the
> > nearest plan to acquire the equipment would be first half of the
> > next year. 
> 
> We're planning to run some W*Services too. So I'm curious to know
> what kind of capacity is usually needed for these services? Of course
> it depends on projected (simultaneous) user base, but I'd like to see
> some estimates for 10,100,1000 etc. users. Does anybody have insight  
> information on this subject?

This sounds promissing! Since I do not have any experiences for this
size of data, I cannot give an hints...

But keep us posted when your services are online :-)

Best
	Stephan



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