ESRI business partners

[Stephen Lime]

The university if a OGC member so we have access to the testbed specs. It shouldn't
take that much time to write WMT wrappers using mapscript, just need to find that
time. The amount of compliance is also an issue. For example, using mapscript it is
possible to write GML so vector data output is a possibility. Don't know whether it's
worth the effort or not...

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> "Ben Lewis" <benlewis1 at hotmail.com> 11/14/00 02:17PM >>>
I just spoke to an ESRI rep at the Penn State Web GIS Conference about this. 
  The idea as I understood it is that anyone can register their data on the 
geography network for download.  To make data available live, that is for 
pan and zoom, query, etc, you need to have a server that is OGC compliant.  
He said that server did not have to be ArcIMS.

Stephen Lime mentioned some time ago that OGC compliance was in works for 
MapServer.  That in my view is one of the most important development areas, 
and will really put MapServer in the game in a major way.  Any ideas on the 
amount of work that would take?  I would guess that one problem will be 
getting the OGC test bed specs as they are only available to those who are 
members...

Ben Lewis
Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc.
Lancaster, PA



>From: "Michael Anderson" <m_anderson14 at hotmail.com>
>To: cnielsen at co.tillamook.or.us 
>CC: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
>Subject: Re: ESRI business partners
>Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:47:21 GMT
>
>I was considering becoming a business partner and approached the local ESRI
>representative to explain what I am doing. I asked what ESRI's ideas were 
>on
>open source in general and mapserver specifically. With respect to
>mapserver, I asked if mapserver web sites would be allowed to join the
>Geography Network. The response was that he couldn't answers any of the
>questions. That was in August and I haven't been able to get a response to
>my emails or calls since. I would be interested to hear from anyone else 
>who
>has approached them about it.
>
>Mike
>
>
>>From: "Chad Nielsen" <cnielsen at co.tillamook.or.us>
>>To: "Mapserver Info" <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
>>Subject: ESRI business partners
>>Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:01:36 -0800
>>
>>I know of a couple ESRI business partners that friends of mine work for
>>that
>>have expressed interest in mapserver. I'm wondering how ESRI would respond
>>to one of their business partners taking on mapserver (or even open source
>>technology in general) in place of ESRI technology. Are there any ESRI
>>business partners in the group utilizing mapserver? Anybody heard of this
>>happening?
>>
>>~Chad
>>
>>Chad M. Nielsen, GIS Programmer/Analyst
>>Tillamook County Performance Partnership (TCPP)
>>Tillamook Coastal Watershed Resource Center (TCWRC)
>>
>>   GIS:   http://gisweb.co.tillamook.or.us 
>>  TCPP:
>>http://www.co.tillamook.or.us/countygovernment/Estuary/homepage.htm 
>>TCWRC:   http://www.tbcc.cc.or.us/~tcwrc/ 
>>
>>
>
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