<div>Hi, I am a newbie to GIS. </div>
<div>Our customer is building their simple web-based MIS, and some modules require GIS functions.Basically what they want is to mark some buildings on the map of city(they own many buildings locate on different sides of the city), and to caculate the distance between them, their also want that by clicking a building on the map, they will by linked to the webpage showing their MIS's interface of the building.
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<div>We was planning to use MapInfo, but only the license expense of MapInfo's webserver will exceed the total budget. So we are trying to find an alternative way. We would prefer a J2EE solution(the MIS is written using J2EE), but since the GIS is an isolated module, it would not be a big problem.
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<div>Finally I found QGIS, Mapserver and other opensource solutions. I have downloaded Mapserver and installed some Mapserver based applications( MapLab etc.). And my question is, if we try to add simple GIS features(as described above) to our MIS, will Mapserver be the answer? or some Mapserver-based application?
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<div>Thanks.</div>