[mapserver-users] enterprise gis

[Brent Fraser]

Eric (and other MapServer / MapPoint users),

  I'm not sure what functionality of MapServer would be of use to MapPoint.

MapServer renders a GIF/TIF/PNG raster map.  MapPoint cannot (as far as I
know) import a raster map.  With MapPoint 2002, it is possible to import
vector map data (points, lines, polygons) with some programming of
MapPoint's exposed ActiveX interface.  If you want to do a spatial select of
store locations, it might be better to store the data in a database as you
suggested and do a little programming to do the extract and post onto
MapPoint.

  On the other hand, the automatic route calculation of MapPoint is
interesting (along with the street-level data for Canada).  Hmmm, I wonder
if there is a way to get lat/lon route points and driving directions from
MapPoint and pass them to MapServer for display on the web...

Brent Fraser
bfraser at geoanalytic.com
GeoAnalytic Inc.
#300 , 700 - 4th Avenue SW Calgary, AB
Canada T2P 3J4
Tel:  (403)213-2700 Fax:  (403)213-2707
www.geoanalytic.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Frost" <EricFrost at MapPoint.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject: [mapserver-users] enterprise gis


> List:
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> Can mapserver handle maintaining a dataset like
> store locations and then have a separate GIS
> platform at the client like MapPoint? Or would
> you need something like SDE?
>
> (Or I suppose if it is as simple as store locations
> you could just use mySQL ?)
>
> Eric
>
> http://www.MapPoint.com
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