Ian, With such an ambitious project and probably a slim budget for staff, I'd recommend your friend talk to Andrew and Sean about using GeoIQ. Otherwise the project would become a huge integration effort using FOSS or fall prey to Jack's minions with the entire budget, except for one or two people, going into a check to Esri.
-Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Ian White <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings > A friend in Oregon state government has a fairly ambitious web-based GIS > project. A brief description—take all land use records from all state, > county and local government offices and digitize them, with metadata, make > everything queryable within a performant web-based geoservices platform. > It's envisioned that this could be used by policymakers, economic > development groups, individuals, transportation planning, and many other > stakeholders. In his words, they want to take Oregon state GIS "from 1989 to > 2020" in one fell swoop. > The project is in (at least) two phases. The first, which would begin > immediately, is to interview stakeholders and create an implementation > plan—what does the application(s) look like, resources, timing, expertise, > etc…There's money for that. The second phase is build, and there's also > money for that. It's envisioned there will be more money as the application > can be shown off to various stakeholders. Phase one begins immediately and > phase two would start in mid-summer. > There's a strong interest in using the best geo has to offer—that means not > being bound by traditional tools/services/infrastructure. Open source/AWS is > encouraged, and he's excited about having multiple firms/consultants working > on different elements of the project (ie, data sourcing, db design, app dev, > UI, project management, etc…). > I'm guarding this a bit close to the vest as I don't want my friend to get > bombarded with email, so if you are interested in knowing more let me know > and I can put you in touch. > I > > == > Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc > 26 O'Farrell Street Suite 310 > San Francisco CA 94108 > T.415.946.8170 X800 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
