[Geomoose-users] OpenWebGIS

[Eli Adam]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
> Hey Dan,
>
> Some of their features are intriguing:
>     View -> Timeline
>     Project -> Save/Load
>     About -> Game
>
> And
>     Edit -> Upload Shapefile
>
>     That last one is interesting as I had built some Python to take a
> shapefile and generate a GeoMoose-friendly Maperver .map file and snippets
> for Geomoose's mapbook.xml (when answering some support questions the person
> frequently sends me a shapefile and a plea for help).  But shipping the
> Python to users would just generate more support questions.   Maybe the
> answer is to host the Python (or the PHP equivalent) on the Geomoose.org
> site?

A QGIS extension that exports the same might be an option as well.

For users I support, the goal is to take 90% of the users to what they
need with GeoMoose.  The remaining 10% getting the higher effort to do
custom one-off projects for them, design some other process and
system, or install and train them in QGIS or ArcMap.  Trying to
shoehorn the last 10% into your all purpose tool takes way more than
10% of the effort and is not worth it.  Or at least that is my
approach.

Eli


>
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser
>
>
> On 12/16/2015 9:15 AM, Dan Little wrote:
>>
>> Certainly some interesting features in there.  Some which we have had
>> in the past or have proposed for in the future.
>>
>> I've always wanted us to find a good balance between solid web-based
>> usability and desktop power. More targeting the user that would load
>> up someone else's ArcMap project, do some queries, and leave than
>> targeting someone who might make the project completely online.  I
>> hate getting lost in the sheer pile of features in some of the Desktop
>> apps.  But then again, I'm one of those users who will pound out
>> things in psql+postgis and then sorta dress it up in QGIS as
>> necessary.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>      I came across OpenWebGIS
>>> (http://opengis.dlinkddns.com/gis/opengis_eng.html).  While some of the
>>> features are very similar to GeoMoose, it has the goal of becoming a
>>> web-based version of a desktop GIS, with data analysis functions etc.
>>> (and
>>> yes the interface hurts my eyes).
>>>
>>>      Interesting stuff as my "hidden" agenda was to push GeoMoose in this
>>> direction.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Brent Fraser
>>>
>>>
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