[mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future

[Michael Scharber]

I couldn't agree more with both of you.  I've only just started playing
with MapServer and already I am thoroughly impressed by both it's ease of
use and rich functionality.

One thing someone should write though, is an Oracle Spatial CONNECTIONTYPE
(and support for it of course).  That way someone with Oracle Spatial, but
no SDE (could you imagine paying for and maintaining both), could just
plug in their layers from "Spatial" and be up and running with MapServer
in no time whatsoever.

Anyway, thanks to MapServer I have renewed faith in publicly available
spatial software...especially web mapping software like MapServer.  Keep
up the excellent work! :)

Michael



 On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Puneet Kishor
wrote:

>
> On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 10:40  PM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
>
> > i've been studing 'n' trying MapServer since the last 12 months...
> >     i was searching for a good GPL+web+gis tool to avoid ArcIMS, cause
> > it's too much expensive and so...i saw mapserver and this list.
> >
> > i've liked too much because:
> > -it's free! it's GPL
> > -it's simple to use(does anybody here has developed something with ESRI
> > MapObjects with VisualBasic? :-(  )
> > -it's fast
> > -it's stable : it is at 3.x version... it's better than 0.2 or 0.5 ....
> > -it's portable : u can use it under Linux or Windows with a little of
> > modifications
> > -...
> >
> > so, finally , my question is :
> > -and what about the future? could mapserver loose its projects like
> > Nautilus(EazeL)?
> > and what i can do help keeping this project alive?
>
> Believe in it, and join the party, dude. The more people use it, the
> more people discover bugs and problems with it, the more people spread
> the word, the more people demo nice sites built with it, the better it
> is gonna be for Mapserver.
> >
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor
> pkishor at eidesis.org
>