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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Ben</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You have to pay about $200-400 per year to
put data on Google, a lot cheaper than commercial software but some cost never
the less</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You have to purchase Google Pro ($200) and
depending oun what else you might have to fork out for the GIS Loader tool
($200).</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>______________________________________________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Gary L. Watry</span></font></p>
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GIS Coordinator<br>
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies<br>
FSU / COAPS<br>
Johnson Building, RM 215<br>
2035 East Paul Dirac Drive<br>
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2840</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>E-Mail: <a
href="mailto:watry@coaps.fsu.edu">watry@coaps.fsu.edu</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> UMN MapServer Users List
[mailto:</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sims, Benjamin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:13
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS]
mapserver vs. google maps - any comparisons done?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have been asked to look into
developing an application to display basic scientific data on the web. Its
fairly vanilla stuff – display points at which a certain event happened,
popup a descriptive text when the user hovers over them and then go to an
information page when they are clicked. There may also be things like colour
coding of grid areas and so forth.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having read a tutorial on using
Mapserver with PHP some time ago and played around with a it a little bit, I
had more or less decided that Mapserver was the best way to go to get this
project done. However, over the last year the I there have been so many
applications coming out riding on Google Maps rather than using a dedicated map
server/GIS product. Despite this, I haven’t been able to find any
information online comparing the different products available, or listing the
advantages and disadvantages of going for one rather than the other.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Does anybody on this list have such
information, or personal experience that they would like to share?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks for any opinions,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Benjamin</span></font></p>
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