You can use Feature Server and Open Layers, open source from Metacarta.
check out the meta carta labs 'on a stick' package: http://labs.metacarta.com/on-a-stick/ You can download a file, uncompress and run it and you have a web server running on localhost that lets you draw on a map, and to save those annotations in a spatial repository on your local machine. Feature Server includes lots of options to let you get your data back out in lots of useful formats (including KML and Open Street Map). You can also run Feature Server on a live server and so other people would be able to see your chances (I don't think your updates would be automatically shown on their screens in real time, but if they hit refresh or you right some Ajaxy update code you could fake it). Cheers, Rich On 7/9/07, Thomas Burley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi: Does anyone know of any GIS technology or GIS-compatible tools that act similar to an erasable white board but capture what the users draw or create on the board and draw that back into a GIS? The idea is to allow users to create scenarios in real time so as to draw upon the collective knowledge of the people in the room, for example, in the field of natural resource management (picture a group of people hunched over a table, drawing on a USGS topographic map...but essentially a 21st century version of that). I think I have heard of tools called "smartboards" that kind-of work like this, and obviously tablet PCs and PDAs have a similar screen function. This would need to be something that would be similar to a GIS-enabled white board which would then feed back into a GIS so that the interactions, consequences, and possible conflicts associated with what the users create (in the context of relevant ancillary data and input data such as current land cover/use, etc.) in terms of changes and scenarios could be assessed. Much appreciate any info! cheers --T.B. _________________________ Thomas E. Burley Research Associate Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment The University of Tennessee Phone: 865-974-4251 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://isse.utk.edu _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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