"Lars V. Nielsen, GisPro" wrote: > > I do recommend that you use the OpenSource products all the way, i.e. > Apache/PHP/MySQL etc., but again - it's a recommendation, not > a must. I've also built MapScript solution with IIS and MS/SQL !
Do you have any publically-accessable examples up yet? We've got a MapServer guru here who has built one that has some surface analysis tools attached (via CGI scripts.) To see it go to http://www.bouldergis.com and click on "Boulder County Viewshed Analyst." Besides the usual map displays, it can do viewsheds, surface profiling and address geocoding. It doesn't work well with older Windows Netscape (they don't support the Java stuff), but it's fine with IE or Linux browsers. It's just experimental at this point, but you can play around a bit with it. We here think pretty highly of MapServer and Open Source solutions, too. I think it's the one force that Microsoft and all those who ride on their coat tails really should be nervous about, because once you've tried Open Source software and see what it can do these days, there's not a lot of incentive to go back to expensive licensed solutions. -- - Bill Thoen ------------------------------------------------------------ GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 http://www.gisnet.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 7929
