From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 11:50:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219A916A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.anything-inc.com (adsl-068-153-193-052.sip.bct.bellsouth.net [68.153.193.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9944F43FDD for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:49:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ) Received: from /spool/local by anything-inc.com with [XMail 1.17 (FreeBSD/Ix86) LMAIL Server] for from <>; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:00:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:00:18 -0500 From: Bob Collins To: Ray Seals Message-ID: <20031202200018.GE64730@yoda.anything-inc.com> References: <20031202162612.GD64730@yoda.anything-inc.com> <1070394138.22703.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1070394138.22703.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Comment: No comment X-Cuse: I have none X-Editor: vi X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=3.5 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GIS server and client? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:50:03 -0000 On Tue, Dec 2, 2003, Ray Seals wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:26, Bob Collins wrote: > > I am unfortunately running ESRI's ArcIMS GIS server on M$ 2000 server > > and would like to move it to FreeBSD. So, the question is; are there any > > known GIS servers that run on FBSD as well as clients? > > > > I am not afraid of hard work and troubles installing, but sure would > > like to do this. I also know ESRI's ArcIMS runs on Red Hat, but I would > > rather not do that if possible. I want to stick with FreeBSD. > > > > Any and all suggestions, as related to the questions ;-) are > > appreciated. Thanks > > I'm currently doing some research on this subject. GRASS seems to be > the big one that is used on FreeBSD. This is a full featured GIS > system. There is also Mapserver which is just a tool for displaying > maps on the web using GIS shapefiles, etc. Mapserver just has some good > API's for using perl and C to manipulate the images as they are being > displayed. > > I don't know much about GIS. If you wouldn't mind fielding a few > questions over the next week or so I would appreciate any insight you > could give me. > > Ray > I would be delighted to answer what I can. I am also somewhat new to GIS, but getting better each day with it. I have built quite a few maps for display over the net, and set up the map server to send to the net as well, so at this time, I am a jack of all trades and a master of none, in the GIS realm. It prolly makes sense to keep this off-list, unless others want it there. Even with that, we should stay off list, I think, as it is not germain to FreeBSD. What I can do, is hold our mail on a web site for future reference for those who might like to follow in our footsteps. Also, FWIW, I am setting this up as a test bed on an IBM Thinkpad 600X running FreeBSD 4.9-Release. It is 450MHz with 256MB -- Bob