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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Manifold 5 IMS or GeoMicro's AltaMap Server |
| Date: |
01/09/2002 06:38:28 PM |
| From: |
Dimitri Rotow |
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> I posted a similar message over the holidays....
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> Has anyone used either Manifold 5 IMS (www.manifold.net) or
> GeoMicro's AltaMap Server (www.geomicro.com). I'm interested in
> hearing people's experiences/thoughts about the products.
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I use Manifold all the time, I'm not a professional programmer and even I
can create a web site using Manifold with zero programming. I am the
marketing product manager for Manifold but that doesn't mean I don't
appreciate the ability to create a web site without having to write and
debug a new application.
As a matter of basic philosophy, I think it's a real waste to have to learn
two different products to bring up a web site. With classic map server
architectures you have to learn a GIS to get your data in order and then you
have to learn to code a map server to bring your GIS project to the web.
That seems like a terrible waste of time to me. It's also a risk because
you can have two different vendors pointing fingers at each other if
something goes wrong. You also don't have the benefit of exactly the same
WYSIWYG environment in your GIS and your map server, so perhaps you'll have
to waste time re-formatting the data, etc.
I think it makes a lot more sense to procure and learn just one product, the
GIS, to create your project using the wonderful WYSIWYG interface of your
GIS and then publish it with a few clicks as a web page and know it will be
exactly as you created it. Building the map server into the GIS makes this
possible. It seems that once one company starts doing this they all will
have to.
What does everyone else think about this?
Note: For a third party opinion on Manifold, you might consider a posting on
Manifold-L, which is where most of the Manifold IMS users seem to hang out.
See http://www.manifold.net/news/news_set.html for links to get there.
Cheers,
Dimitri
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