On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:32:21AM +0200, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi > > > 2009/1/23 Judy and Chris Beaudette <jcbea...@yahoo.com>: > > greetings. > > > > my company is developing a demo that queries tabular data for environmental > > facilities based on environmental interests, NAICS codes, etc. and generates > > reports that have embedded simple maps (google maps) with the facility > > location and some facility details in a custom marker. we want to embellish > > the maps by pulling data from different sources as follows: > > - environmental tabular/attribute data in xml fed from Web services > > - GeoRSS with location data from the same Web services > > - spatial data from other WMS, WFS, WCS services > > > > to that end, we're looking for an appropriate open source GIS client > > application that can do the OGC stuff and that we can pass the attribute and > > GeoRSS stuff for rendering the environmental data. > > > > those are the gotta-haves. the nice-to-haves are: > > - .NET or C/C++ API (preferred) or Java API, so that the maps can be > > embedded in a desktop application, but barring that: > > - a Web API (HTML, python, php, etc.), and barring that: > > - a desktop client that can be invoked from our app that can do all of > > the above > > > > after browsing the products pages at osgeo.org, opengeospatial.org, > > opensourcegis.org and freegis.org, the names that kept coming up were gvSIG, > > iGeoPortal, and maybe uDIG, with various other possibilities (cartoweb, > > GeoDango, Chameleon, Mapfish, and of course many others). > > > > does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on what would: > > - work best to support the functionality required in the demo, while at > > the same time (and to a lesser degree): > > - what is a viable long-term solution (i.e. not likely to go away any > > time soon) > > > > thanks in advance, > > > > ~~crb > > > > > QGIS (http://qgis.org) is probably a good fit for your needs - we have > an API that can be used from Python or C++. It doesnt have everything > you need (e.g. GeoRSS support isnt there) but its a great solution for > writing vertical applications with embedded GIS data browsing > functionality.
GDAL trunk has GeoRSS support; I don't know if you can open arbitrary GDAL datasources with QGIS yet, but at the very least, it's not inconceivable to add that support with relatively limited coding effort. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
