Much thanks for the response, I

have tooled around with geoserver, mapserver and mapguide. I have even read the Scott Davis book but i felt the functionality was limited- particularly in the sense that i am not an expert programmer so trying to customize took a very long time. Either way i had some drafts running and felt the functionality was not there. I would like a scalable application starting with a polygon file globally by country and to basically create thematic maps from a dropdown list of variables BUT eventually i’d like to build in the ability to do some statistical analysis by comparing data and simple spatial analysis from a point data cities file. Further to this id like the end result to be full interactivity with end users to upload parameter specified data to be mapped. I am constructing a flex app w 1 spatial data layer coupled with/arcgis server(serving their layers now but I can see this will end up taking some time to configure it efficiently. Any recommendations as far as direction would be greatly appreciated. I would like to build it in parrallel with the movement of the geoweb (meaning i dont want to get ahead of myself) and adopt massively expensive software of rigorous scripting -not that arcgis server isnt cheap.

Do you need to update your data through the web interface? Because that will make a big difference to the amount of work involved and the available options for the server.

I’m NOT a GIS expert, but I’m working on a small web mapping project with GeoServer, which is very easy to install and use, and has a GUI to help you set up WMS/WFS/WCS access to layers in a database or various file formats, but has no built-in support for designing output maps.

MapServer offers more support for designing your web-map outputs, as well as some support for DB connections and WMS/WFS services, and scripting APIs for PHP, Perl, Python, Java etc. I’m sure a real GIS expert could advise you further about this.

MapServer and GeoServer are both free,and from what I’ve read, they’re both fairly comparable in terms of performance/scalability.

MapGuide Open Source (also free, from http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ ) might be another option, as it’s supposed to be fairly easy to pick up and use. It’s a combination of spatial data server (i.e. it can access databases) and map renderer, with support for AJAX web clients. I’ve not really used it, so again – get some advice from somebody who knows what they’re talking about !

“GeoWeb” learning resource: Scott Davis’s excellent book “GIS for web developers” will get you started with a load of open source GIS/web-mapping tools.

Good luck!

I also talked to an ESRI architect during a developer’s conferene and offered collaboration (given my expertise in cluster computing and SMPs) to help port their server software on a cluster computer, but never got a call back… Any takers?

LSU beat Tenn in the championship game. We had a brain fart and lost to Tenn in the regular season. And to make matters worst, Vanderbilt or Kentucky didn’t do their job and beat Tenn later in the season. Otherwise we would have been in the championship game.

SEC is like the Big 12. Both have two divisions and the winner of each division play in a championship game. So, no more winners by a overall conference record.

Really, in the scheme of things, so long as Florida gets beat. It’s a great season. The rest is icing on the cake.

Hmmm, that ASU icing is going to taste devilish!

KoS

the game is the national night game on ABC (8 pm)

We are talking football! Who cares about the other crap.

But I will say, after having said the above, at least we lost to Fresno St in the finals!

I would love to attend the game, heck, all of them for that matter. Not sure if I’ll be able to swing the trip thou. Kinda have to pick my battles with the boss lady.

If not, it better be on national TV.

KoS

TIA! bon