At the beginning there was a chat with @ortelius outside the Namenlos bar at FOSS4G in Bonn. Jef insisted in doing a benchmark of MVT server implementations at the next FOSS4G. With my experience from the FOSS4G WMS benchmarks, where I supported Marco Hugentobler in the QGIS team, I knew how much time such an exercise takes and was rather sceptical.

This year’s FOSS4G edition took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. As every year, Sourcepole was supporting this major event as a sponsor. We would like to thank for all the interesting discussions and feedback to our presentations!

The Web Mercator grid as used by OSM, Google, etc. is the de-facto standard for serving web maps. But not many people maintain data in a Web Mercator reference system. People usually use either a locally optimized SRS or store their data in WGS84.

Reporting back from FOSS4G 2017 in Boston, which started with the usual QGIS plugin programming workshop, this time at the Harvard University campus.