[Mapserver-users] fully featured GIS and "mapserver vs GRASS GIS" {Scanned} {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Saurabh Data wrote:

> Dear Users
> 
> I have two questions.
> 
> 1. FIrstly, is says on the Mapserver homepage that "MapServer is not a 
> full-featured GIS system, nor does it aspire to be. It does, however, 
> provide enough core functionality to support a wide variety of web 
> applications." . How is it not a fully featured GIS and what features of a 
> GIS are not present if Mapserver
> 
Analysis is not involved (buffering, overlay, modelling).
Map creation and editing missing.

> 2. Secondly, If anyone has used GRASS GIS, how better or worse are the two 
> applications?

No sense to compare them. The purpose of the two systems are different.
Grass is a professional, full featured GIS, prefering raster data.

Mapserver is map publising tool. You cannot substitute Grass with 
Mapserver and vica versa.

Bye
Zoltan