Hi Larry,
I wonder if GeoServer, with it's transactional WFS capabilities, would
be of assistance? That, along with OpenLayers may provide your client
with some of the needed tools.
Regards, Bob
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Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:40 PM
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Subject: [jump-users] Slightly off topic:The state of web GIS
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.
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