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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have been
asked to look into developing an application to display basic scientific data
on the web. Its fairly vanilla stuff – display points at which a certain
event happened, popup a descriptive text when the user hovers over them and
then go to an information page when they are clicked. There may also be things
like colour coding of grid areas and so forth.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having read
a tutorial on using Mapserver with PHP some time ago and played around with a
it a little bit, I had more or less decided that Mapserver was the best way to
go to get this project done. However, over the last year the I there have been
so many applications coming out riding on Google Maps rather than using a dedicated
map server/GIS product. Despite this, I haven’t been able to find any
information online comparing the different products available, or listing the
advantages and disadvantages of going for one rather than the other.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Does anybody
on this list have such information, or personal experience that they would like
to share?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks for
any opinions,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Benjamin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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