Hi
2009/1/23 Judy and Chris Beaudette <jcbea...@yahoo.com>: > greetings. > > my company is developing a demo that queries tabular data for environmental > facilities based on environmental interests, NAICS codes, etc. and generates > reports that have embedded simple maps (google maps) with the facility > location and some facility details in a custom marker. we want to embellish > the maps by pulling data from different sources as follows: > - environmental tabular/attribute data in xml fed from Web services > - GeoRSS with location data from the same Web services > - spatial data from other WMS, WFS, WCS services > > to that end, we're looking for an appropriate open source GIS client > application that can do the OGC stuff and that we can pass the attribute and > GeoRSS stuff for rendering the environmental data. > > those are the gotta-haves. the nice-to-haves are: > - .NET or C/C++ API (preferred) or Java API, so that the maps can be > embedded in a desktop application, but barring that: > - a Web API (HTML, python, php, etc.), and barring that: > - a desktop client that can be invoked from our app that can do all of > the above > > after browsing the products pages at osgeo.org, opengeospatial.org, > opensourcegis.org and freegis.org, the names that kept coming up were gvSIG, > iGeoPortal, and maybe uDIG, with various other possibilities (cartoweb, > GeoDango, Chameleon, Mapfish, and of course many others). > > does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on what would: > - work best to support the functionality required in the demo, while at > the same time (and to a lesser degree): > - what is a viable long-term solution (i.e. not likely to go away any > time soon) > > thanks in advance, > > ~~crb > QGIS (http://qgis.org) is probably a good fit for your needs - we have an API that can be used from Python or C++. It doesnt have everything you need (e.g. GeoRSS support isnt there) but its a great solution for writing vertical applications with embedded GIS data browsing functionality. Regards Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss