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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not that I am ready to hack on code like you guys
do yet, but here is a site that may be of interest in setting up the FOSS-GIS
suite : <A
href="http://ortho.mit.edu/mitorthoserver/">http://ortho.mit.edu/mitorthoserver/</A>.
The site tells developers/users how to set up a MITOrthoServer.
MITOrthoServer really is like MapServer plus a few raster processing utilities
from what I can see. What I like from it, though I haven't tried to set up
a MITOrthoServer myself, is that steps are clear as to how one sets
up a server. The key aspect for me is the idea that one can set
up an MITOrthoServer of their own that becomes part of a network of such
servers. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For the server side aspect of FOSS-GIS, this
may be an interesting site to consider. Personally, I see a bunch of
"geodata servers" -- those servers could be any OGC compliant servers
(MITOrthoServer is apparently OGC 1.0) -- or some sort of data broker that
would fetch data from geodata servers and a GIS desktop. Do I
understand well the FOSS-GIS idea as being a vertical solution all the way from
geodata serving to data analysis ? In this case, it would be nice to have
a choice to install either a "FOSS-geoserver layer" and/or a "FOSS geodata
broker layer" and/or a "FOSS GIS desktop layer". If pieces could be
decoupled, then it would be possible to set up a web of geoservers and
geoclients (e.g in university labs). And maybe when a clearer idea of a
geodata broker (WSDL/UDDI/GML ?) shapes up it can be implemented as a FOSS-GIS
layer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just my 2 cents.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yves Moisan</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>