[Mapserver-users] Re: Mapserver-users digest, Vol 1 #586 - 10 msgs

[Giorgio Plazzotta]

I read these very interesting comments about this subject and I have
something to add. I have been using most of the GIS products since 1990 and
in all these years I think the only main software producer I have never
experienced is Intergraph and the Geomedia suite but I know very well all
ERSIs, and most of Mapinfo and Autodesk destop GIS applications. On the
webmapping side I used ArcIMS for 2 years.
I agree that Mapserver is nothing less than ArcIms and i suppose this can be
extended also to other similar applications such as Mapguide and Mapextreme.
This have to be underlined because many people should think that an
Opensource solution is by default "weaker" than a commercial product. Of
course we could talk for days about the differences and the comparisons
finding that one does a task better than the other and vice versa. I also
agree with the reader who selected the "layout" side as a weak point in
Mapserver. The legend management should be improved in the future
development (anyway ArcIMS is not better).
Somebody also mentioned the client side applications in order to imagine a
complete Opensource GIS solution. This should be a very interesting goal but
i think at the moment is a dream.
I didn't use all the sereval solutions but i used Grass and saw QGis. I
don't want to say that these solutions, especially Grass are not good but
really I shoudn't imagine a compehensive GIS environment in which the
desktop side is served by one of these softwares.  I think that at the
moment the gap between the commercial solutions and the free/opensource on
the desktop side is wider than in the webmapping side.

Giorgio Plazzotta
Saras Ricerche
Assemini (Italy)




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