Bug 32799 - mapserver : platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web, NEW PKG REQUEST
Summary: mapserver : platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping appl...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New RPM package request (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
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URL: https://mapserver.org/
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Reported: 2024-02-01 20:08 CET by Marco De Salvo
Modified: 2024-02-04 20:38 CET (History)
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Description Marco De Salvo 2024-02-01 20:08:09 CET
There are many excellent GIS packages already available in Mageia world (e.g: Gdal, PostGis, QGis, Grass) but not MapServer (https://mapserver.org/). Fedora supports it in its repos (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mapserver), so I believe this software addition would deliver benefits to our community in terms of enhanced daily GIS working perspectives.
sturmvogel 2024-02-01 20:43:28 CET

Version: 9 => Cauldron

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2024-02-02 21:15:00 CET
Thank you for your interest. 

Download the MapServer Suite
Download the suite
 https://mapserver.org/download.html#download

Can you please explain which bits you have in mind (Mapserver or all three):
 MapServer
 MapCache
 TinyOWS
and say briefly what they do.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith
URL: (none) => https://mapserver.org/
Summary: Please add package for MapServer => mapserver : platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web

Comment 2 Marco De Salvo 2024-02-03 18:27:54 CET
Hi,
I am mainly interested in MapServer as a standalone CGI application hosted in a web server (Apache). It gives the ability to realize interactive and configurable WebGis applications by outputting in many desired formats (e.g: jpg/png images) the rendering of geographic maps declared in a text syntax known as "mapfile".

MapCache is an additional CGI application which optimizes use-cases based on specific spatial datasource types, if required in the mapfile (e.g: the tiles of a blue marble background layer returned by a remote WMS server can be cached here for performance). I think this is not fundamental (imho), just a nice to have.

TinyOWS is similar to MapCache, but it targets a very specific OGC protocol for editing and querying of spatial features (WFS). I think this is also not fundamental.
Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2024-02-04 20:38:00 CET
Thank you for this extra information.

 https://mapserver.org/download.html#download-source
does separate the 3 bits, so I am trimming this request to just 'MapServer":
 https://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-8.0.1.tar.gz
plus perhaps
 https://mapserver.org/download.html#download-the-documentation

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You Marco might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Summary: mapserver : platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web => mapserver : platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web, NEW PKG REQUEST
CC: lewyssmith => (none)


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