Open Source GIS

[Simon Haddon]

Yes.  I have seen it work.  Go to 
http://www.intl-interfaces.net/pipermail/wms-dev/2001-July/000006.html 
and have a look at the different resources.  There is a demo there that 
allows you to pull data from different sites.  I can't remember which one 
it is although.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 1/03/02, 5:44:32 PM, Andrew.Loughhead at csiro.au wrote regarding RE: 
Open Source GIS:


> 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.
> >