Maybe you're right Hamish, but it's something we also would need in the Research Agency I'm working in form my thesis... They asked me: "Is there an OS software that can integrate the features we can find in ArcGIS Server?". My answer was: "There isn't an all-in-one solution, nut we can bring different pieces working together"... The features I mean are:
- workgroup and enterprise level spatial data management, with versioning management, distributed editing (WFS-T is hard to be thought as a real productive solution by now), db replication... - server based analysis and geoprocessing (I think to a "Grass Server" version). WPS could be a solution (if it will be integrated in desktop gis clients!), but it needs a real geoprocessing server as a backend. PyWPS try to emulate it making system calls to shell commands (like Grass ones)... but I don't think it's can become a real distributed analysis solution! In brief, this is what I expect from a Gis Server. I know I'm asking the paradise, but it was kust to explain my, and other's, needs. Giovanni _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list grassuser@grass.itc.it http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser