Thank you all for your comments. They were very helpful. From what I have seen, we may be on the crux of a new era of web GIS. Demos like http://crschmidt.net/mapping/wpserverdemo/index.html (OpenLayers on top of WPServer) show what can be done.
However, it all does still look a bit experimental from where I stand. Since my project is going to last several years (forever in internet time), it would appear to be wise to sit it out for a while and see what shakes out. It is hard to know who the big players will be. The old guard of GIS, ESRI, AutoDesk, and the like seem almost insignificant beside the likes of Google, Microsoft, and the growing open source movement. regards, Larry On Nov 7, 2007 8:01 AM, Nutsch, Bob D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Larry Becker > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:40 PM > *To:* JUMP Users Discussion > *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. > > -- > http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > jump-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > > -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/
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