[Geomoose-users] Cost of an ArcGIS based application

[Dan Little]

What I'd charge is dependent on how much client involvement there is and how picky they are about their cartography.  You can kill a lot of hours in the carto changes.  

That said, I don't think $25-3500 is out of range for a basic GeoMoose setup.

Also, have you considered suggestion GeoMoose as a front-end to the ArcGIS WMS server?  WMS = WMS to GeoMoose.




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> From: Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
>To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org; Ed Boesenberg <eboesenberg at niraengineers.com> 
>Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 10:42 AM
>Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Cost of an ArcGIS based application
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>Ed, 
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>If they were already a customer on subscription, probably based on time used, which I would think would be less than an hour, assuming I knew their system configuration, and had remote access (which is expecting a lot in some situations) to their system.  Moving updated code and testing remotely vs direct access is a big reduction in costs for something like this.  These kinds of things can lead to much more expense very quickly, as much as what you described, possibly, but I might start looking for alternatives if I was the one needing to pay for it. 
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>I've done this kind of thing for free in the past if the time needed was slight enough, or the client had some sort of maintenance agreement in place (some lump some per year).  Easily fits into that sort of payment type in my mind.  A provider does need to cover their butt however when negotiating these kinds of things.  Capping time, etc. 
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>Now after saying all that, and based on what you described.  I would have probably charged at most an hour, and even at $150 an hour, I don't think it would irritate any of my customers. 
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>bobb 
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>>>> "Ed Boesenberg" <eboesenberg at niraengineers.com> wrote:
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>A client decided to have a web mapping application setup for them based on ArcGIS Server.  I wasn't involved in the decision or else I would have persuaded them to use GeoMoose.  The beta version website is up and running and my client would like to add additional functionality and also modify the symbology of some layers and since the additional functions were not outlined in the original proposal a new one must be agreed upon.  One new function requested by my client was to modify the identify function to add a link to a PDF, specified within the shapefile.  I just received the new modified proposal and the cost to change the identify function is $3,400, which works out to about 28 hours at $120 an hour.  There were other modifications included in the new proposal and, in my opinion, all of them seemed high.  Does that cost seem high to anyone else?  Am I being unreasonable? 
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>What would you charge a client to add a link to a PDF for the identify function if you had already setup a GeoMoose application? 
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>What would you charge a client to setup a complete GeoMoose application with basic layers (buildings, roads, parcels, waterline) and some basic services (printing and identify), exclude web hosting fees? 
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>I look at the bill for the entire project and think to myself I could have done the project for a third of what the other company is charging by using GeoMoose. 
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>Just wondering. 
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>Ed  
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