[mapserver-users] Map Viewer for use on laptop

[E Perik]

Hi Tyler,

It is important that it is a combined view/edit program because the user
needs to select the object to be edited and then easily fill in a new
value like house-number or alike.

When using CDBFW, Access, Excel or alike, he then also needs to find the
id-number and only then he can edit the value. Too much hassle for use
on a laptop ;-(

Thanks,

Erwin


-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:TMitchell at lignum.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:43 PM
To: Stephen Woodbridge
Cc: E Perik; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Map Viewer for use on laptop


Erwin, do you need to do the database editing within the same
application
as the one that will do the viewing of the map data?  If not, then you
could simply you Excel or Access to do the database editing and use
something like ArcExplorer or OpenEV to look at your shape files.


 

                    Stephen Woodbridge

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I'm sorry, I haven't been following this thread but why not get
ArcExplorer2 which is a free download from the ESRI site?

Granted it is view only app. As soon as you want to edit files the
problem become a little more complex. :)

-Steve

E Perik wrote:
>
> Regarding my first question I did get some useful answers, however ...
>
> Is there a low budget Viewer + database-editing option available?
> In general only ESRI shapefiles are used, so that should keep a lot of
> options open.
>
> The reason why I ask is because local resellers are referring to huge
> program's, often based on a webserver or the viewer uses a
non-standard
> file-format.
>
> So if I go out in the field (uhu uhum) with a laptop/PDA and want to
> edit data of an object, what would be a simple program to use?
>
> Setting up mapserver+apache+PHP could do this, but I was looking for
> another (quicker) solution.
>
> Any tip is more then welcome!
>
> Erwin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of E Perik
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:47 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Map Viewer for use on laptop
>
> Hi All,
>
> I know this is totally off topic, but are there some good GIS-viewers
to
> view maps also used by Mapviewer on a laptop without a webserver ?
>
> Functionality should be no more like:
>
> * Zoom
> * Pan
> * Identify/Query
> * Search
>
> All data are ESRI shape-files and some GEOTIFF's.
>
> Did some searches on the internet, but did not come up with many
> results.
>
> Now I only use ArcExplorer from ESRI, but are there other low-price
> solutions available?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Erwin