I manage a GIS at a small company in Tempe, AZ. We’ve been designing web based GIS sites since the old ArcView IMS extension. We’ve moved from MapObjects IMS to ArcIMS 3,4,9 and now we’ve begun to look at UMN Mapserver. Basically we’ve heard from clients that they are having problems with the cost of maintenance of ESRI products. If we could eliminate ArcIMS/ArcSDE for these people and still provide our look and feel, this might be a market worth looking into. I’d love to make our sites work with any backend that the client wants. We’ve used .NET in our latest products, but maybe PHP or JSP would be a better choice for doing this. I’m just not sure what to think at this point, but I’ve got our database programmer looking at getting PostGIS and Mapserver installed on our Linux server.
Its going to be quite a move from ArcIMS/ArcSDE/Oracle, but maybe we’ll learn something. I’ll post more about this next week when we get it installed.
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sajid
// Jan 18, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Hi !
My name is Sajid and I am doing Masters in computer. Currently working on GIS project for study purpose. I want to have webbase interface for my Project. I have create shape files in ArcView 3.2. I have installed ArcIMS 9.1 but facing problem in using it.
please help me in that.
Regards.
Sajid.
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mark
// Jul 14, 2006 at 11:19 am
How did the install go?
Have you since moved on to MapGuide / MySQL?
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Raghu Jagwani
// Feb 23, 2007 at 1:24 am
hi
we are working on opensource maping using mapserver/mapbender..well
we can now create webbased maps using cgi scripts,so wats the progress u have made??? i want to implement a good looking GUI..ne idea how to do it …
we are now trying to querry shape files and its working..we want to implement routuing and virutal tour ..can ne1 help plz reply ..date –22/02/07,thanks
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