[OpenLayers-Users] Geoserver vs ESRI ArcGIS Server.

[Imran Rajjad]

Hi.

Well you dont have the luxury of styling the map in geoserver. You
have to write an SLD file according to your visualization requirement
for each layer seperately, that requires time but its not difficult at
all. I have seen a lot of people getting stuck with ArcGis server
because normally it becomes very buggy when you are creating a WMS
service. I would say integrate your geoserver with Arc SDE , that way
you wil have to do less work on geoserver for data publishing.

regards,
Imran

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Robert Buckley
<robertdbuckley at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Geoserver users,
>
> I am currently in a geoserver testing phase . I work for a regional
> authority in Germany and am in the process of deciding whether Opensource or
> ESRI should be used to build our WMS/WFS Service.
>
> Our current GIS editing suite comprises of ArcGIS with the Imagemapper
> extension for internet maps. This is great for a quick visualisation of
> mapping projects but has the disadvantage of not being a wms/wfs service.
> Observers can therefore only see the data as we have published them, and
> cannot load the data into their own GIS. There is also no support for layers
> as such, which is the main reason why I am looking at geoserver.
>
> My question is for people who people who use ArcGIS to create their spatial
> data, and Geoserver to publish the data as WMS/WFS services.
>
> How should I prepare my data for geoserver publishing? Is there a large
> amount of work needed to publish a geoserver project based on ArcGIS mxd
> Projects? Is there any clear disadvantages to using a geoserver setup in
> comparison to an ArcGIS server setup? I have unfortunately not been able to
> use either software, but have read that an ArcGIS mxd Project can be
> directly converted with a few clicks into a wms service. How true is this?
>
> I look forwards to your replies.
>
> Yours,
>
> Robert Buckley
> www.zgb.de
>
>
>
>
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