We use web gis in a couple of situations to collect geographic information that is used as part of a departmental business process:
1) Tagged fish reporting. Staff created an application to capture the locations where tagged fish were caught. That information is used to generally locate the catch in a water body, but it also used to direct the details of the catch to the appropriate field staff. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fisheries/tagged_fish_reporting/index.html 2) Burning Permit Sales. We use a simple application that allows users to locate the site where they intend to burn stuff (woody debris). That location is critical in determining if they are in an area that is open to burning, what specific restrictions might be in affect and so on. Those locations are then made available to emergency response folks though an extranet web mapping application so they know where active permits are at any time. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/burning_permits/ Steve >>> "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/16/08 9:20 AM >>> Greetings, Many state and local Public Administrations around the world use Open Source GIS software to present their geographic data through the Internet. Most of those websites, however, are one-way only. The end user can navigate through a digital map, zoom, unzoom, select layers and so on... but he or she cannot use the system to directly _communicate_ geographic-related information to the Public Administration which created that website. I am thinking to any kind of things like "click on this map wherever you have seen an abusive dumpster/polluted springs/ill trees/ whatever, enter a short explanation in the form which will pop up and the server will immediately send that comment via email to the police station closer to that point and put a link to your comment on the map itself" Do you know of any website of this kind? the reason I'm asking is both to write an article on this and to add such examples to a generic presentation about "GIS for local public administrations" I have to give next month. Thank you in advance for any input. Best Regards, Marco Fioretti -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
