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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am curious about this myself. In my research, it seems that both packages are using MapServer versions that are fairly out of date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">MS4W hasn’t been updated in over a year and is at MapServer 6.0.3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">OSGeo4W reports it is using an even older version 5.0.x.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Meanwhile MapServer itself is at 6.2.1 and counting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">One big difference in the two packages is that OSGeo4W is a bunch of OS GIS tools including things like GRASS and QGIS, while MS4W is just MapServer. We use
MS4W extensively and find it very easy to install and configure compared to OSGeo4W. MS4W really is the ‘drop-in’ approach and we can typically set up a server in about 30 seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">===============================<br>
<b>Michael Smith MS GISP</b><br>
State GIS Manager, Maine Office of GIS<br>
State of Maine, Office of Information Technology<br>
<i>michael.smith _at_ maine.gov</i> 207-215-5530<br>
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Board Member, Maine GeoLibrary<br>
Education Chair, Maine GIS Users Group<br>
State Rep, National States Geographic Information Council</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><img width="299" height="68" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE7E1B.1479DAB0"></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">State House Station 145<br>
51 Commerce Drive<br>
Augusta, ME 04333-0145<br>
69<sup>o</sup> 47' 58.9"W 44<sup>o</sup> 21' 54.8"N</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] alternatives to ms4w?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">are there any recommendations between ms4w and osgeo4w. i guess it depends on use case but for typical uses?<br>
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<a href="https://encrypted.google.com/?q=ms4w+vs+osgeo4w">https://encrypted.google.com/?q=ms4w+vs+osgeo4w</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">as for my case, i'd like to use the latest release of apache, postgis and php with mapserver, and so just looking to drop-in ms on windows.<br>
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it seems osgeo4w is heavier than ms4w. why not combine these efforts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">thanks, jzs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Siki Zoltan <<a href="mailto:siki@agt.bme.hu" target="_blank">siki@agt.bme.hu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear John,<br>
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check osgeo4w at <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
Zoltan<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, John Smith wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">guys,<br>
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are there any good alternatives to ms4w at<br>
<a href="http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/?page=downloads.html" target="_blank">http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/?page=downloads.html</a>. its last stable base<br>
package is over a year old from may 26, 2012, and there is no timeline<br>
given about its next release.<br>
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thanks, jzs<o:p></o:p></p>
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