[Mapserver-users] Seeking WMS services

[Ed McNierney]

Sean -

You'll probably get LOTS of offers if you're willing to settle for 4 out
of 5 of your requirements <g>.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: (978) 251-4242  Fax: (978) 251-1396
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Gillies [mailto:sgillies at frii.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:03 PM
To: Mapserver Users
Subject: [Mapserver-users] Seeking WMS services

Greetings,

I am seeking a WMS provider who would like to partner with me
on a project that will jointly promote the provider's WMS
services and my ZMapServer product.

I soon intend to release WMS client software for Zope and I
would like there to be a default WMS service(s) to get new
users going quickly.

My requirements for WMS services are:

1. version 1.0+
2. No access constraints, no fees
3. at least two interesting layers of great extent.  Global
    would be nice, but US-wide or Europe-wide are fine.  High
    resolution data would be nice as well, but not absolutely
    necessary.
4. High availability and reasonable performance.  I anticipate
    about 100 new users over the first couple weeks.
5. Accurate and descriptive WMS metadata are a must. An Abstract
    is a requirement.

What do I offer in return?  Promotion of the service provider's
web site which should be defined in the service's top-level
WMS OnlineResource URL.

The link below is to a screenshot of the ZMapServer WMS Adapter's
main management page.  This particular adapter was created using
a URL to CubeSERV.  CubeSERV defines the CubeWerx home page in the
top-level OnlineResource url, and through such a link I hope that
my partner(s) would draw new visitors to their sites.

http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/screenshots/adapter_main.jpg

I've been testing against CubeWerx, but I'd _much_ rather partner
with someone from the MapServer community.

If you are wildly interested, email me a URL for your service and
we can discuss all the details.  If you are but mildly interested,
feel free to write me for answers to any questions.

cheers,
Sean



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Sean Gillies
sgillies at frii dot com
http://www.frii.com/~sgillies

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