Dear fellow geowankers Please forgive/ignore this post if you think it entirely off topic.
Our company make a (currently) proprietary solution for building online map/GIS applications and we've had quite a bit of success with it, enough atleast to pay the rent, buy nappies and go on holiday once a year. Recently, inspired by others, even members of this very forum, we had the somewhat strange idea of realeasing the software that's taken us 4 years to develop as Open Source. We know we can still live off developing actual web solutions based on it, so why not let others have a go with it aswell? The client/server, hyperGIS (www.hypergis.com) converts just about any data in vector or raster format to .swf (Flash). This means you can build quite slick client-side user interfaces and so called Rich Internet Applications or RIA's (Adobes marketing dept, not ours :O) "quickly and easlily" as they say. The raw data is used to pre-render objects as flash MovieClips, together with all their attributes (if you need them) and creates a well indexed database over them for quick retrievel. The client can also except data in XML, though this is noramlly only used for "live" data such as GPS tracking, etc. because of the sheer size compared to binary swf. The server that converts the data to is written in C#, and uses MS-SQL for storage, but could easily use other databases. The XML layers can and already do run on just about platform that can spit out a text file. And the point is? Well it would require some time and effort to release and maintain this as open source and would be a complete waist of our time if it was completely surplus to the requirements of the community. So to the point, would anybody be actually interested in using it, if it were available for download, for free? We would really appreciate the views of the geowankers who are exactly the people we'd be hoping would adopt the technology to build all kinds of great stuff. You don't need to respond here unless you think it is relevent to geowanking, but anything from flames to beta tester applications you can send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I promise all comments will be helpful for us to make this decision. Thanks for listening, and if I am off topic please tell where I should post this. Cheers Pete S. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
