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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] MapServer vs. ArcIMS |
| Date: |
11/09/2005 09:40:02 AM |
| From: |
Dylan Keon |
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On 11/09/2005 07:07 AM Lawrence Hartpence wrote the following:
> Hello,
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> For almost two years now, our organization has used ArcIMS to serve maps on
> the web. I attended a workshop which demonstrated MapServer recently and
> found it quite interesting. I would like to know what people out in the GIS
> community think about the two products. How do they compare?
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> Also is there any documentation out there describing how both could be
> installed on the same machine to compare them? I use IIS as my web server
> software.
Lawrence,
We've been using MapServer for a while. We've found it to be much
faster than ArcIMS when rendering the same datasets on the same
hardware. MapServer also supports a plethora of vector and raster
formats, particularly if you use GDAL and OGR with MapServer. MapServer
can be used as a CGI or you can use any of the MapScript APIs to
MapServer (PHP, Perl, Python, etc). We found that really helpful
because we could leverage the PHP and Perl experience we already had,
which made it pretty easy to integrate database content with maps. We
had a much more difficult time trying to accomplish the same thing with
ArcIMS.
Another benefit is that MapServer can seamlessly display spatial data
layers stored in PostgreSQL/PostGIS. It can even work with SDE layers
if you build MapServer with SDE support.
The only downside is that there isn't an "out of the box" interface like
ArcIMS provides, and advanced tools (e.g., buffering) are also not
something that comes "out of the box."
--Dylan
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