Daniel Mayer wrote:
Right now I'm taking an Internet-based GIS class.
You probably know more about this than I do, so this is quite possibly a
naive question. Is it possible to leverage any of the existing
internet-based GIS stuff for our purposes? The Open GIS Consortium has
a number of protocols that seem to do things similar to what we want,
with software already built to do it --- the most relevant seems to be
the Web Map Server (WMS), which worked pretty nicely the last time I
played around with one. Basically generates raster-image views of an
internal GIS-based map. There's also a Web Feature Server (WFS) if you
want feature-type information rather than rasterized renderings to be
served.
-Mark