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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Publishing Grids on the web |
| Date: |
06/23/2003 01:55:00 PM |
| From: |
Peter Baumann |
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Thanks for your interest!
Dimitri Rotow wrote:
> > A way to offer grids (=rasters) via Web is provided by rasdaman
> > (http://www.rasdaman.com). Just drop your georeferenced raster
> > data into the
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> Sounds very interesting! For some reason I had not known of your product and
> so am intensely curious. I visited your web site but could not find any
> pricing. What do you charge for a rasdaman license on a server? Is the
> price for unlimited, perpetual use or are there per annum or impression
> charges?
Pricing is solely based on the number of parallel server processes you deploy,
i.e., the number of users that can be answered at any instant in time: the
per-process licence is competitively low. Note that many clients can log in at
the same time sharing the login name. Pricing is not based on data volume,
traffic, functionality, etc. And yes, it is for unlimited, perpetual use. I am
not a friend of leasing software, because this only serves to tie a customer to
a vendor for unlimited, perpetual payments given the costs of change.
> Also, do you have any "live" samples on your web site that show the
> performance?
At least here in Europe data policy is very restrictive, making it virtually
impossible to get customer data released for public display. I know that what I
wrote is hard to believe, and consequently a high-ranking IBM expert, following
a demonstration, once told me "you have to show that peformance to people, they
won't believe you if you just tell it". I admit some marketing weakness here,
coming from a research environment.
> One more question... do you have the documentation on line that discusses
> how to configure your server? I'm curious to see if it is more like the
> Minnesota MapServer (which can also serve rasters, I believe) in that it
> requires some scripting for configuration or if it is more like Manifold (no
> scripting required).
The answer is yes and no. No, there is no script programming required, just make
the server known your environment during installation (what's my server host
name, database name, etc.), and then start right off defining your maps and
filling them piecemeal or at once (all either per GUI or per cmd line). But also
yes, because rasdaman actually is a toolkit giving access at many levels, from
HTML-based browsing to command line to API programming to phrasing your own
queries (which, in turn, can be sent to the server without programming). This
opens up the full customization spectrum for rasters - pretty much like any
database system does for "standard" data.
BTW, as you mention the UMN server: a distinguishing criterion is that rasdaman
puts its data into a standard _DBMS_, not into files - see my previous mails for
the advantages gained: as Oracle's Director Spatial Databases has put it at GITA
2004, "2D/3D image databases represent a core next step in geo databases" (flame
on me for not citing exactly, it's out of my memory). Therefore, rasdaman is
positioned not as competitor, but as add-on to standard GIS servers.
> Cheers,
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> Dimitri
Same here, with a beer (dinner time in Munich... :-)
-Peter
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