[Mapserver-west] Mark Rodrigo - Arizona

[Mark Rodrigo]

Hello Westerners:

I guess that goes N to S. I have been working with MapServer for almost 
two years now, and have deployed to both Windows and SuSE Linux with 
Tyler's help.

I mostly do MapServer at night and do that other stuff during the day. 
I just gave a MapServer presentation on March 3rd which you can find on 
my website www.markrodrigo.com I took a few minutes during the end to 
slam the other web IMS products, and I think everybody pretty much knew 
I was slamming ESRI. 

My chief reasons for using MapServer are:
1. Stability
2. Speed
3. Flexibility
4. Longetivity
5. Portability
6. Community
7. Expandibility

Those are pretty generic reasons which have a lot of technical reasons 
behind them.

Nowadays, I am into integration with PostGIS, PHP Mapscript, Web 
Services and using other server side OpenSource technologies. I just 
finished the base map server for all of Mexico which I want to expand 
into a Web Services Demographic Extraction tool. I also volunteer and 
am working on a white shark almost real time tracking app.

Peace

M



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