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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] MapServer....vs...ArcIMS |
| Date: |
11/09/2005 10:00:02 PM |
| From: |
Shawn Wallbridge |
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On 9-Nov-05, at 11:32 AM, Michael Morin wrote:
> Having been a former GIS admin for the State of Illinois and users of
> ESRI products I have to say I am impressed with Map Server. So this is
> freeware?....What do you need to get it up and running in terms of
> other
> software....Apache?....someone said Chameleon?....this is new territory
> for me and frankly I am glad to see there are some serious rivals.
> ESRI
> once used unix as it development platform...which i used for 20+
> years...but when they went to Microsoft the GUI and the underlying OS,
> especially in a networked environment with SDE was sluggish at best.
> Yes it is easier to set up out of the box but most of us who are in
> charge of getting all this stuff to work shouldnt think working with
> Map
> Server as a daunting task.
>
> Can someone shed light on download sites...other piecies I need and
> what
> spatial format will this server accept?...ESRI shape...coverages...sde
> layers...DOQ...DEMS and other rasters?
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> I am now retired and do not have the budget I once enjoyed so I am
> looking for Open Source solutions.
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> thks...by the way the dm site in canada is nice....very nice. :-)
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> regards,
> --
> Michael Morin
Their are two books on Mapserver, my favorite "Web Mapping Illustrated"
by Tyler Mitchell (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping/) actually
covers a few other open source mapping applications as well. The other
book is "Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development" which is
also good.
They would probably be the easiest way to get started.
shawn
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