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What is the main benefit and drawback of: GeoServer, MapServer, Mapnik? [duplicate]

For the purpose of creating a comparison table, please recommend a couple of feature fields that would apply to each FOSS GIS server. And, perhaps answer the question of which desktop GIS System, ...
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QGIS Server limitations?

QGIS Server seems to be fairly simple to setup and create services, however I'm wondering if there are any limitations with using it opposed to MapServer or GeoServer. My current server ...
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Stuck while Using GeoServer WPS with QGIS

I have been using Geoserver WFS and WMS with Qgis for a longtime. Now i am trying to integrate WPS... I downloaded and activated WPS plugin for Geoserver. And i succesfully got result of buffer ...
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How to include streaming media into an OpenGeo system to monitor live-tracked animals?

I am wondering how to include streaming media (video), or camera feeds, into an OpenGeo system to monitor live-tracked animals. I am currently doing so with different applications, but I want to do ...
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How to set up a background map in WGS84 projection for interactive map?

I've started developing my own interactive map and I have some things which are not clear to me. I heard that OSM, Google maps and all similar maps use Google Mercator projection. But if I use that ...
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Scripting (with) WPS?

As far as I understand WPS (web processing service) can be used to execute geospatial operations on the server side. Is it possible to create scripts with WPS? For example something like: 'check in ...
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What's the easiest way (style wise) to publish my MapInfo map as WMS?

I've downloaded data for my country from OSM and let a GIS expert to style it for me in MapInfo pro. (I have TAB files and .wor - workspace). When I tried converting them to SHP (for QGIS) I've ...
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What to do about Geoserver WPS Warning “Could not get a ServiceInfo”?

This is the warning i am getting when i try to use this WPS service from QGIS, and the processing take a long time, but doesn't terminate, what might be the problem? 17 Oct 12:33:25 INFO ...
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Error occured decoding the epsg code - 3857 (Web Mercator) [closed]

I'm trying to add the following wms service to QGIS using EPSG:3857 and get the following error: Service (running on L/A/P/P geoserver): http://66.228.57.208/geoserver/wms?tiled=true or non-cached ...
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Is it possible to convert a Geoserver SLD to Quantum QML format?

I have a web application which runs on Geoserver. I am migrating my application to desktop and am struck at applying the same color schemes and symbology. I am not able to find a way to convert SLDs ...
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GeoTiff size - what to do?

I have a whole series of GeoTiff tiles, each one about 250mb in size, in total just over 90gb. I want to be able to display these as a wms into QGIS to 20+ GIS users and in the end make them into a ...
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how to create gis like Uster?

I downloaded qgis, geoserver, openlayers, ext, geoext, qgis-web-client and osgeo. And i have map shape files. i would like create website like this site. i need help. can you send tutorial links thank ...
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QGIS: WMS misalignment

I am experiencing a small screen space offset when using a WMS layer (origin is GeoServer 2.1.4): The image shows a red square which is the top left pixel of a tile (GeoTIFF). An exact copy of the ...
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QGIS & WMS: Different aspect ratio between width/height and bbox

I am experiencing a small screen space offset when using a WMS layer (origin is GeoServer 2.1.4). Looking at the requests from QGIS (1.7.4) to my GeoServer I realised that the aspect ratio between the ...
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QGIS WMS ver 1.3.0 Exception with GeoServer

I'm trying to load WMS layers from a local GeoServer into QGIS so that I can edit them. I can access and edit the same layers if I access them directly from a PostGIS database. However, trying to load ...
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PostGIS uuid type not visible in QGIS or GeoServer

This is probably a simple question, but nothing comes to my mind right now. I have created a view in PostGIS containing multiple columns, including one column of data type uuid. When I try to ...
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Tiled Map Services from Geowebcache in QGIS?

Can QGIS consume Tile Map Services from GeoWebCache? I know there is a article on the QGIS website which states that it does support tiled map services but it lists Tile Cache from Meta Carta labs ...