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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] google maps |
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02/16/2005 03:20:05 PM |
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Using scripting, frames, etc, to update variables on the client-side without page-refresh like in Gmail or Google Suggest is smart, but not new- think Yahoo got there earlier. If you want to try something simpler with PHP, JPSpan [http://jpspan.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php] might just work with PHPArcIMS [http://phparcims.sourceforge.net/].
Harsh Prakash
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From: Michael Gould <gould@lsi.uji.es>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:14:31 +0100
That's right. "GIS" per se is general purpose and analysis oriented.
These apps are special purpose and search + visualization oriented.
Companies like MSFT and Google know (or can buy experts in) how to search
and visualize.
Tim Smith asked who builds them? any group of clever programmers, better
if they are not constrained by notions of what GIS is supposed to be, or do.
Mike Gould
p.s.- similar story for LBS
At 16:01 16/02/2005, Sonny Parafina wrote:
>In my opinion, spatial is no longer special and companies that insist that
>it is will go the way of the dodo.
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>BTW, good see you posting to this incarnation of gis-l, Bill.
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>sonny
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: gislist-bounces@lists.thinkburst.com
>[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.thinkburst.com]On Behalf Of Bill Thoen
>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:40 AM
>To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
>Subject: RE: [gislist] google maps
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>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Michael Gould wrote:
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> > Yes, another example of how, when you want to paint fast maps on the
> > screen, you don't need a heavy GIS-based solution behind the scenes, only
>a
> > clever programmer. Terraserver demonstrated this several years back: lots
> > of server power and lots of GBs, but a simple concept for retrieval and
> > visualization. The swiss map is even simpler, because they manage fewer
> > possible tiles.
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>Makes you wonder why most of the major popular GIS applications (Mapquest,
>MapPoint, Terraserver, and now Google) are being developed by companies
>not known for their GIS capabilities.
>
>- Bill Thoen
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