Can you explain how mapserver is not a full-featured gis application? Coz i think it's the best. You can use ArcGIS or Grass, until you learn some mapserver.
Mapserver is self expandable by using PHP/PERL/PYTHON/RUBY/C# ... relying on PostGIS/Oracle for spatial data storage. It is built upon a webserver and thus be used for large datasets for large scale analysis to normal level analysis. It is FOSS, largely used and vital for many researches including wikimapia. Due to it's expandability with R Programming language, Oracle 10g and PostGIS using many programming language, you just don't have to wait for any other software, just create a mapscript and go for it. Try reading the following documentations: 1. http://www.osgeo.org/mapserver 2. http://ms.gis.umn.edu/ 3. http://spatialintel.blogspot.com/2008/03/arcgis-server-vs-mapserverpostgis.html 4. http://www.softscout.com/software/Energy-and-Natural-Resources/Survey-Mapping-and-GIS/GLG-Map-Server.html 5. http://mapserver.org/introduction.html 6. http://www.maptools.org/php_mapscript/ 7. http://mapserver.org/mapscript/index.html 8. http://technology.slashgeo.org/technology/06/05/31/1242245.shtml 9. http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ 10. http://mapserver.org/input/vector/oracle.html 11. http://ms.gis.umn.edu:8081/ms_plone/docs/howto/oracle_spatial_howto ~ Tushar 2009/9/12 Bijay Rai <[email protected]> > > Alrite, I'lll try ArcGIS on Wine (this is an obligation for the time > being). But eventually, I'll switch to some open source GIS application. I > don't why and how this feeling developed in me, but I just hate commercial > applications. > > @tushar - mapserver is not a full-featured GIS application. > > > -- > Bijay Rai > Dharan-10, Sunsari > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
