Open Source GIS

[Andrew.Loughhead at csiro.au]

mapserver can apparently be both a OGC WMS server, and an 
OGC WMS client.  To quote from the mapserver web site 
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/unix-install-howto.html):

   Client
   Cascading is also supported. This allows mapserver to 
   transparently fetch remote layers over WMS, basically 
   acting like a client, and combine them with other 
   layers to generate the final map.

which sounds pretty much like 'fusing' data. I don't know 
if it actually works though. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Edwards [mailto:Robert.Edwards at anu.edu.au]
> Sent: Friday, 1 March 2002 1:07 PM
> To: Simon Haddon
> Cc: Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au; linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Open Source GIS
> 
> 
> 
> OK, here is the next big challenge:
> 
> Several of us have sites that can host some GIS data. How can we set
> it up so that we can fuse data from different sites and also cache/
> mirror data from various sites?
> 
> We have already had a bit of a look into this but didn't get so far
> on a solution. Has anything else come up yet?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bob Edwards.
>