ESRI business partners

[Ben Lewis]

Michael,
I checked out your client and it is very impressive. Is there a place to go 
for the background on the project?  Is it open source?

Ben Lewis
Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc.
Lancaster, PA





>From: Michael Kleih <michael.kleih at jrc.it>
>To: Ben Lewis <benlewis1 at hotmail.com>
>CC: m_anderson14 at hotmail.com, mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: ESRI business partners
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:45:20 +0000
>
>
>
>Ben Lewis wrote:
>
> > 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...
> >
>
>We actually are already using MapServer for creating OGC Web Mapping 
>Testbed
>compatible layers, have a look at out client:
>
>http://opengis.jrc.it
>
>You can a also upload your ArcView Shapefiles through
>
>http://soda.jrc.it
>
>MapServer will then make them OGC WMT compatible and they will be
>available in opengis.jrc.it.
>
>If you are intersted in the OGC WMT 1.0 specifications (2.0 is still under
>developement)
>go to
>
>http://www.opengis.org/techno/rfc10info.htm
>
>Michael
>

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