On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:12:58PM -0600, Bob Basques wrote: > The setup of the interface as well as the data sources are all > abstracted to the point that each individual data custodian, and/or > service owner, can implement their respective dataset/service in their > own way and update it as frequently, or infrequently as they desire.
I'm not sure I understand this, or several of the other things in this email. I'd like to understand them. Are you on the webmap-discuss list? Would you be willing to continue the discussion there? > Everything in GeoMoose, including the Nav tools, are considered a tool > or service of some sort, so it's very easy to add others to the mix. > The administration of the data maintenance is also a big difference > compared to other pacakages, because once the layer/service is > implemented via GeoMoose, it's up the layer/service providor to keep it > maintained into the future. Since everything is a service of some > sort, these services can all be maintained and authenticated in any > manner the custodian/owner want to use. > > GeoMoose is aimed at datasets that change fairly often, on the order of > hours or minutes, and is intended primarily to access this type of data > set. OpenLayers with it's Tiled interface seems to be intended for > displaying datasets that tend to be more static in nature. Now, either > of the two packages can can be used for each others capabilities, but > GeoMoose was built from the ground up based on a asset management type > of business need with mapping as the visual identifier. > > One last item, is that GeoMoose the interface is initiaqlized from a XML > file, a MAPBOOK, so setting up business specific interfaces is very > easy. This XML file is even something that can be automated, so that an > online method of setting up a Mapping interface could be built, and is > something that is planned for as well. > > Besides, everyone throw OpenLayers out there as an Option, I'm just > offering up another. :c) Hm, I must have missed that; I didn't see anyone mention OpenLayers as an option explicitly. Will have to poke at my mail server and see what's up. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
