Hello all, I'm in the early stages of a new, but long anticipated software project involving GIS. My assumption has always been that the role of the GIS client would be filled by SkyJUMP, and the role of the GIS server would be filled by ESRI Arc-something. Recently, I've been pressured by the clients to adopt a web 2.0 approach to the project for the usual reasons, ease of deployment, maintenance, and certification.
Unfortunately, the client GIS definitely needs to support fairly heavy data creation and editing capabilities, plus I need to perform a good bit of customization to integrate it with another application that will be a consumer of some of the GIS data. The direction that I have been pointed by the clients is toward ArcServer's new Web Editing capability. However, we have found that ESRI changes the direction of their platform every three or four years, leaving frustrated early adopters in their wake. To paraphrase Obi-Wan, "I would prefer to avoid any ESRI entanglements." So my question for all of you GIS gurus out there is, "What is the state of web GIS?" Can the current state of the art handle my scenario, or is it still too soon? And since this is a JUMP users discussion list, I'll also pose the question, "Could JUMP be morphed into an editing web client?" best regards, Larry Becker Integrated Systems Analysts, Inc. -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/
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