Hi Ian We're trying to do large-scale vendor neutral deployments that can be repeated for different organisations, possibly hosted on a server farm - most people only need to SEE maps so WMS is an great way of putting maps out across a network from one spot, based on a machine we can optimise for that purpose. It also makes sure everyone sees the same map at the same time. And most desktop clients will now interact with WMS.
It means we can give people a unified picture of the organisations mapping, through the tools they are used to using. I think MapInfo/Oracle deployments are simpler with big holdings of large-scale data than the SDE equivalent - point is, it doesn't matter because the users interact with an OGC compiant web service and if SDE/IMS is better we can replace the vendor mix and leave the interface untouched. (We will still have small numbers of read/edit users who need to interact with vector and we'll do that with linked tables/SDE etc). The point is - ESRI are making a big deal of how they are interoperable, ArcExplorer doesn't seem to work that way and I'm trying to find out if its us or them! Paul Crisp BT Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: Ian Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 April 2004 16:08 To: CRISP, Paul -Syntegra UK Subject: Re: MI-L ArcExplorer and OGC WMS I'm confused. You have ArcExplorer, and you've deployed a WMS server using MapXtreme Java 4.7. ArcExplorer cannont access the WMS layers you've published using MapXtreme? When using ArcExplorer, are there other WMS sites that exhibit the same behaviour? You'll have to forgive me as it's early over here - and I'm not a coffee drinker. - Ian Erickson ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:55 AM Subject: MI-L ArcExplorer and OGC WMS Has anyone got this to work? It sounds like a fantastic deployment route - especially on the sort of work we do - and building WMS in MapXtreme Java 4.7 doesn't even require any code - but from the ESRI website nobody can read OGC WMS from ArcExplorer and our own experience it works er, 0 times. Is this because of the software or because we don't know what we're doing? Thanks Paul Crisp BT Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 ******************************************************************** This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender immediately and delete it without reading, copying, storing, forwarding or disclosing its contents to any other person Thank you Check us out at http://www.btsyntegra.com ******************************************************************** ******************************************************************** This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender immediately and delete it without reading, copying, storing, forwarding or disclosing its contents to any other person Thank you Check us out at http://www.btsyntegra.com ********************************************************************
