[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Best GIS with below listed requirements

[Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov]

Mayank,
        I'm a bit confused.  Do you want to run a desktop gis through a 
web interface, or be able to perform some  GIS functions similar to a 
desktop gis through a web interface ? 

         It sounds like you want to be able to run a specific GIS software 
remotely as a thin client, but though a web interface.   I believe that 
you can accomplish remote access via Citrix  through a web interface.  The 
upcoming NX 4.0 software should also offer this web based thin client 
access.

        You can thin client into windows computers via rdesktop ( 
available on most linux distributions) or via the NX client, 
http://www.nomachine.com/documents.php.  You can also set up one of the 
various flavors of VNC services on windows or linux.  you can alos set up 
NXserver on linux and access it from Windows, Mac, or Linux. ( Supposedly 
there is a version of nxserver for windows in the works) .  If you are 
going linux to linux, you can use ssh with X forwarding on and have the 
program execute remotely but display locally.

        If you want to make a web interface look and act like a desktop 
gis with access to all of the commands in say, GRASS, then I think you've 
got a fair bit of web programming ahead of you.

Doug


Doug Newcomb 
USFWS
Raleigh, NC
919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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Thanks a lot Doug,
But will it help Desktop GIS to act as a web based GIS?
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