Hi all, Thanx for the prompt and useful responses. I had completely forgotten about using Terminal Services Client. Licensing issues aside we have been looking at setting up a complete environement allowing users to load, edit and save map data via the web.
We've gone through Geoserver, MapBuilder, Mapserver, PostGIS, etc but the documentation is frankly awful except for Mapserver but that is only a WMS, and I need a WFS-T (transactional - for data edits). Maybe that will change over time..but right now lack of suitable documentation hinders progress. We had thought of converting all my GIS data into XML, then using AJAX and SVG to control the entire interface, problem is, we really need to stay with TAB file format-so converting to and fro isn't ideal since we'd have to use MITAB libraries in PHP or Perl to handle the conversion. Citrix was a thought, but our operation is very small at the moment, so we need to be conscious of outlays. Ideally, using MapInfo on a server and allow remote access to a MapBasic utility will give us all the functionality we could possibly hope for-which is why we aimed for it. The real issue is ease of maintenance and long term development. The industry is changing and our website needs will change as well, short term options aren't really viable since in a year or two so much could have changed and being able to upgrade easily is very important, especially since there aren't many of us! :-) So many choices!! :) Ben __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
