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All,<br>
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GeoMoose doesn't do everything you're looking for, but it's a very good
for connecting and presenting different data streams in a single
interface. Combining it with something like QGIS is something we've
looked at ourselves.<br>
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bobb<br>
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Tim Sutton wrote:
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2009/1/23 Judy and Chris Beaudette <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jcbeaude@yahoo.com"><jcbeaude@yahoo.com></a>:
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<pre wrap="">greetings.
my company is developing a demo that queries tabular data for environmental
facilities based on environmental interests, NAICS codes, etc. and generates
reports that have embedded simple maps (google maps) with the facility
location and some facility details in a custom marker. we want to embellish
the maps by pulling data from different sources as follows:
- environmental tabular/attribute data in xml fed from Web services
- GeoRSS with location data from the same Web services
- spatial data from other WMS, WFS, WCS services
to that end, we're looking for an appropriate open source GIS client
application that can do the OGC stuff and that we can pass the attribute and
GeoRSS stuff for rendering the environmental data.
those are the gotta-haves. the nice-to-haves are:
- .NET or C/C++ API (preferred) or Java API, so that the maps can be
embedded in a desktop application, but barring that:
- a Web API (HTML, python, php, etc.), and barring that:
- a desktop client that can be invoked from our app that can do all of
the above
after browsing the products pages at osgeo.org, opengeospatial.org,
opensourcegis.org and freegis.org, the names that kept coming up were gvSIG,
iGeoPortal, and maybe uDIG, with various other possibilities (cartoweb,
GeoDango, Chameleon, Mapfish, and of course many others).
does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on what would:
- work best to support the functionality required in the demo, while at
the same time (and to a lesser degree):
- what is a viable long-term solution (i.e. not likely to go away any
time soon)
thanks in advance,
~~crb
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QGIS (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://qgis.org">http://qgis.org</a>) is probably a good fit for your needs - we have
an API that can be used from Python or C++. It doesnt have everything
you need (e.g. GeoRSS support isnt there) but its a great solution for
writing vertical applications with embedded GIS data browsing
functionality.
Regards
Tim
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