[Geoserver-users] OSS application to serve file based images

GeoServer GeoServer User
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Hello

I understand that most experts are saying it is far better not to load images in a database but rather to serve them from a file based system. There are two commercial products that I know of ER Mapper - Image Web Server and ArcGIS Image Server what OSS products provide comparable functionalities. If these are available are there any bench mark studies done and also I would like to integrate such products with ArcGIS Server.

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Sindile Bidla

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Intengu Technologies ha scritto:

Hello

I understand that most experts are saying it is far better not to load images in a database but rather to serve them from a file based system. There are two commercial products that I know of ER Mapper - Image Web Server and ArcGIS Image Server what OSS products provide comparable functionalities. If these are available are there any bench mark studies done and also I would like to integrate such products with ArcGIS Server.

GeoServer and MapServer can both serve raster images, but no, I don't
have benchmarks. Also, you citing ER Mapper makes me think you want
to serve ecw data? You cannot do that with open source server side
tools unless you buy a server license from ERMapper.

Cheers
Andrea

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IMHO, I believe that you can replicate the functionalities of those two commercial software products by writing your own scripts in whatever OSS solution you choose. Lots of work and know-how is required. While in Image Server for example, you just run some wizard-like UIs and get the job done much easier. But don't take my word for that, I'm one of the "experts" that believe that you *can* load and server images from a database server.
Best regards,
Ivan

Intengu Technologies wrote:

Hello

I understand that most experts are saying it is far better not to load
images in a database but rather to serve them from a file based system.
There are two commercial products that I know of ER Mapper - Image Web
Server and ArcGIS Image Server what OSS products provide comparable
functionalities. If these are available are there any bench mark studies
done and also I would like to integrate such products with ArcGIS Server.

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