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Joe,<br>
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>From the municipal mapping side of things I would suggest you take a
look at GeoMoose as a Web Front end. It hooks to MapServer currently,
and future versions will be using the OpenLayers LIB for the Mapping
aspects. It was designed from the ground up to facilitate publishing
for the municipal data custodian perspective. It also works well with
all MapServer data connections such as PostGIS.<br>
<br>
bobb<br>
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<br>
<br>
pyroGIS wrote:
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cite="mid:95aa283c0810280841r7f2c7df0g4c89cef36227323b@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Fellow listers,<br>
<br>
Greetings all..let me start with a quick executive summary-type
thingy..I'm a relatively young GIS professional, my roots are in
Forestry, my major offered a GIS minor - I took it and I've turned that
into my focus (if i get another bachelors, heaven knows it will be in
computer science!). After working in natural resources, wildfire
mapping, etc. which were mainly GIS's deployed within an ESRI framework
- currently I'm with a small city (approx. 40,000 people) as a GIS Tech
where we're using Bentley MicroStation Geographics. Along this route
I've gotten involved with ArcIMS, KML/Google Earth+Maps APIs and
experimented with various open source Desktop GIS programs like
MapWindowGIS, QGIS and uDig to name a few..this has allowed me to get
my feet wet with a little JavaScript, XML, and general (X)HTML along
the way too. (Oh, and I gotta mention how much I love the FWTools
package too!)<br>
<br>
I've been researching OS for about one year now and have seen the
light. Also with an anticipated move outside of the United States soon
(Brazil, Italy, Greece or Australia), I think having the skills to
deploy/develop OS GISs will be helpful in finding work. In the
meantime, while I work here at the city I'm going to try to promote
moving to an OS suite for our GIS. Like I mentioned we're using Bentley
MicroStation Geographics with a SQL database. I'm coming from an ESRI
background before this and still getting used to it - but I'd like to
get my IT manager to see the benefit of deploying OS here. <br>
<br>
What I was naturally looking towards was using a QGIS frontend with the
GRASS plugin and PostgreSQL with the PostGIS plugin..this seems to be
somewhat of a standard for the Desktop GIS + Database duo from my
research on OS GIS..right? Where I'm wondering about going next is down
the whole Web Mapping road. What are your opinions on GeoServer vs.
MapServer vs. OpenLayers? Those seem to get the most love from the OS
community ... should I skip worldKit? what about deegree?<br>
<br>
I think I'll leave my rant at that for now - I am also interested in
various other things like contributing to the OSGeo community..perhaps
with documentation creation/editing, etc. as it's quite obvious I'm not
very well versed in computer science/programming..or getting involved
with GIS in the countries I mentioned previously as I'm considering a
move or discussing the various Masters programs in GIS out there - but
those are for another time ;) CHEERS_ joe<br>
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