MapGuide gaining traction

MapGuide Gaining Traction

December 21st, 2006 · 4 Comments · MapGuide, OSGeo

The City of Scottsdale is seeking GIS users from the Arizona community who are developing Web applications in MapGuide and who may have begun to use the new MapGuide 2007 environment.

We at the City of Scottsdale have just begun this exciting endeavor and were wondering if there are users interested in participating in knowledge sharing about the process of development in the new environment.

During this process we have collected a lot of documentation that the Open Source provides and believe we could act collectively with other Arizona MapGuide users to better provide services to our customers. We are just finalizing the installation of the MapGuide Extended services to our Web servers and will begin development soon so any collective endeavors would help further the understanding of this software.

Please contact me if you would like to participate and I will forward you information to our developers at the City of Scottsdale who are handling this migration.

Thanks,

Mele

Mele Koneya
GIS Analyst II
City of Scottsdale GIS

I left out Mele’s email/phone number, but I can put anyone into contact with him or the City of Scottsdale. I keep seeing more and more requests like this every day. Something about open source breeds community doesn’t it?

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4 responses so far ↓

1 Mr. GIS // Dec 22, 2006 at 7:42 am

With all this buzz circling open source gis and the ADF licensing craziness. I think the time is right, for a new open source GIS framework to be created.

I might be crazy but what if the open source GIS community created an open source version of the WebADF that ran using the Mono Framework(http://www.mono-project.com). Replicate all the properties, functions and objects of the WebADF. But make it so that it runs against open source server software like MapServer and MapGuide. Than you could use the code you wrote for IMS and ArcGIS Server against MapServer and MapGuide and not have to change anything. This would make switching gis server software very easy.

I wonder what type of legal ramifications you would face from ESRI. I mean the only thing your copying is the interface of the framework not the code behind it.

What does everyone else think about this?
2 Dave // Dec 22, 2006 at 6:21 pm

@Mr. GIS:

We’ve been doing essentially this for some time, abstracting calls to ArcIMS ActiveX connector and Mapserver’s Mapscript_csharp libraries. It works well, especially when you can show a client the ArcIMS implementation, then throw a switch and show them the Mapserver - and highlight the (lack of) differences in the final product.

I have considered adding MapGuide Opensource to the array of GIS providers - just waiting on a client to request it.

All this is to say that the principle is solid.
3 Rob // Dec 23, 2006 at 11:24 pm

Mele is male, so you will probably want to contact “him”.
4 James Fee // Dec 24, 2006 at 8:27 am

Actually I knew that, but…