As I mentioned in last month’s issue, the Open Geospatial Consortium’s standards - Web Map Service and Web Feature Service - represent a new paradigm for geospatial data sharing. We’ll take a look at using a WMS service
OK, that’s a lot of acronyms. OGC is the Open Geospatial Consortium. They’re a group that creates voluntary standards for geospatial and location based services. WMS stands for Web Map Service and specifies a standard
No, the PC isn’t talking the household cleaning product. Fair warning: the geek verbage below is quite heavy.Ajax is short for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. It isn’t a technology in itself, but a reference to a gro
In last week’s discussion about the wonders of PostgreSQL and PostGIS, I mentioned I’d talk about serving maps without a map server (in the publishing world we call that a “teaser”). Alas, the PC is up to his eyeballs i
Telling ArcIMS to buffer a user-defined point, such as a mouse click or an address from the master address table, is a bit trickier than one might initially suspect, as Amy Weeks found out. She figured it out, though, a
SDE is not a spatial database.Surprised? So was the PC when he began administering SDE. SDE is an interface between (proprietary) client software and a normal, non-spatial database. It allows spatial data to be stored
What’s the greatest feature of Firefox? Tabbed-browsing? Pop-up blocking? Safe and secure browsing? Skins? Nay, says the PC. It’s all of the stuff you can add to it!Firefox is open source, and anybody can make an e
Did you know that you can join tables on the fly with ArcIMS? The PC didn’t know that either. That’s right, I said it: The PC didn’t know. But the Chamber Project has a requirement to be able to show parcels that are
Think there might be something missing in the bottomless pit known as Visual Studio? So does Microsoft. Check out their list of “Ten Must-Have Tools” here. One neat tool allows you to change the version of .NET differe
The PC loves his Firefox. If you’re a Firefox user, check out the Web Developer extension at http://addons.mozilla.org/.You can validate code, see form arguments, change forms from GET to POST, outline elements like tab