Mapfish Appserver is a platform for building web mapping applications using OGC standards and the Mapfish REST protocol.
Slides from FOSSGIS 2013 in Rapperswil (in german).
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Das benutzerfreundliche und funktionsreiche Quantum GIS (QGIS) bewährt sich seit mehreren Jahren im professionellen Einsatz. Die Firma Sourcepole aus Zürich füllt jetzt eine letzte Lücke, die Organisationen davon abgehalten hat QGIS in Unternehmens-Infrastrukturen einzusetzen – der professionelle Support direkt von den Kernentwicklern. Mit dem QGIS Enterprise Long Term Support- und Wartungsvertrag erhält der Kunde die Sicherheit, eine professionell unterstützte und betriebsbereite GIS Infrastruktur auf der Basis von QGIS zu betreiben.
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Quantum QGIS, a user-friendly and full featured Open Source GIS suite, is used in a wide range of professional enterprise infrastructures. Sourcepole, located in Zurich, Switzerland, now fills the last gap, which has prevented many organizations from the use of QGIS in enterprise infrastructures so far - they offer professional support directly from QGIS core developers. With QGIS Enterprise long term support and maintenance, the customer gets a professionally supported and maintained GIS infrastructure based on QGIS.
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The good old OGC WMS has many advantages compared to tiled maps:
Continious zoom levels Support for different projections Combination of multiple layers in one request Higher resolutions for printing Better labelling No maintenance needed when updating data Well known disadvantages are scalability issues for high-traffic sites and a slower response time for complex maps.
The second point can be significantly improved by using a technique known from the progressive JPEG format.
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If Spamassassin is reporting the following:
0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. # See # http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block # for more information. # [URIs: example.org] then you can check whether your dns forwarder is possibly blocked by URIBL:
$ host -t TXT 2.0.0.127.multi.uribl.com # 2.0.0.127.multi.uribl.com descriptive text "Too many queries from 188.40.24.98. See http://uribl.com/about.shtml#abuse. Emails blocked due to this response are done so incorrectly. Please fix your software." The server in question is running at Hetzner and 188.
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