[postgis-users] Any FOSS equivalent to ArcGIS Server tasks?

[Barend Kobben]

FYI, the OGC standardises "Tasks" as GeoWebservices and there's a WPS = Web
Processing Service standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps).
Several implementations exist, eg at the 52North Open Source initiative
(http://www.52n.org/).

Barend


On 31-01-2008 19:28, "Paul Ramsey" <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:

> In true ESRI form, they re-named something generic because it was
> GIS, so it needed a different name.
> Tasks == Web services
> What ESRI has done that has not been done in the OSS world is
> standardize the bindings for their web services so their clients can
> discover and consume them on the fly.
> I don't know of any non-ESRI consumers of ESRI "tasks".  I also don't
> know of any reason why you wouldn't want to expose your web services
> as something a lot simpler, as the folks at mecklenburg did, for
> example.
> P
> 
> On 31-Jan-08, at 10:16 AM, dnrg wrote:
> 
>> Is there a FOSS equivalent to ArcGIS Server /
>> publishing out geoprocessing *tasks*? Or does ESRI
>> have something unique in that regard?
>> 
>> Don't know if ArcGIS Server tasks can be "consumed" by
>> anything other than Arc* clients (e.g. ArcGIS Explorer
>> / Globe or ArcMap), or ESRI run-time one-off clients.
>> 
>> 
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