Hi Lexi, I certainly agree with you as an (ex) geoinsider myself :). However, While Yahoo maps, mapquest, google etc. are not true GIS's I do tend to think that there is valuable place for them in business as tools for quick address verification, rendering of contextual and spatially juxtaposed information etc., and as a basic component of a "complete" customer management systems' toolkit. IMHO, where ESRI, Intergraph and other true GIS vendors tend to fail (from a business perspective) is in providing light-weight, cost effective simple mapping tools with rich overlays suitable for non-geoinsiders to use -- sometimes you just want a map!. MapPoint is perhaps the most focussed on business needs but suffers from the cost persepctive.
-----Original Message----- From: Aleksei Valikov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:19 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map Hi. > Thanks for the note. The map viewer I'm talking about is just a > wrapper around various publicly available online mapping services > rather than a full blown GIS application. The requirements would be restricted to: [...] My perspective may be a bit "geoinsider" perspective, but I think that Google Maps or Yahoo Maps are just nice toys. They're fun to use, but they hardly fit professional applications. Of course, JSFying them is a progress, and this is a nice thing to do, but you should be aware that professional market needs more powerful tools. In the Web GIS field, a dream would be a framework like Community Map Builder fully JSFied. Map viewer itself and all of the controls implemented as JSF components so that you could do something like: <m:mapViewer wms="wms.xml" boundingBox="#{myBean.boundingBox}"> <m:pan/> <m:zoomIn/> <m:zoomOut/> <m:zoomFull/> <m:selectBox value="#{myBean.selectBox}"/> <m:selectPolygon value="#{myBean.selectPolygon}"/> <m:distanceMeasurementTool/> </m:mapViewer> Bye. /lexi
