[Freegis-list] free software vs. free services

[Allan Doyle]

Hugo,

There are portal/index pages already. I have one but it's for a
community I'm working in. If you can find it, you can have the info :)
(Just respect that the service providers are probably not willing to
be deluged with requests). The issue really is that this area is still
quite new and providers of the service may be reluctant to advertise
something that as Bernhard points out is 'gratis' but costs money to
provide. I can tell one good story about this. One of the WMS vendors
has a really great gratis WMS service running. They noticed a lot of
hits from a specific location, recognized the location and told the
people there that they would be happy to sell them a WMS installation.
The other side bought an implementation and now both parties are
happy. (And the second party is running a gratis service now, too).

Of course, there are ways to shut down the gratis part, and these are
under investigation by providers (e.g. PKI), but I think there will
probably always be places that use gratis services as a means to bring
in traffic.

Getting back to your original question - yes, FreeGIS.org could set up
a list, why not? 

	Allan

By the way, the word free is just so much easier to use than gratis
for a native English speaker, I think you're going to fight an
unwinnable battle, Bernhard!

Hugo Ahlenius wrote:
> 
> Great!
> 
> But more... is there some portal/index page of such things (or could this be
> something for freegis.org... ?)
> 
> Cheers, Hugo
> 
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>  |  -----Original Message-----
>  |  From: Allan Doyle [mailto:adoyle at intl-interfaces.com]
>  |  Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 23:19
>  |  To: Hugo Ahlenius
>  |  Cc: freegis-list at intevation.de
>  |  Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] free software vs. free services
>  |
>  |
>  |  There are a number of organizations supplying free
>  |  services, at least
>  |  when it comes to OGC WMS implementations. There are many that are
>  |  known to specific communities that are perhaps not ready to
>  |  be pounded
>  |  on by the general public. However, there are some that have
>  |  been quite
>  |  openly advertised. These would include
>  |
>  |  http://www2.demis.nl/mapserver/Mapper.asp
>  |  http://www.cubewerx.com/demo/cubeview/cubeview.cgi
>  |
>  |  In both cases, you can find the entry point to the WMS by doing a
>  |  "view image" on the map and looking at the resulting map URL.
>  |
>  |  You can also find some nifty embeddable tools at
>  |  http://ceonet.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/cs/en/index.html that let
>  |  you add maps
>  |  and gazetteers to your web site.
>  |
>  |      Allan
>  |
>  |  Hugo Ahlenius wrote:
>  |  >
>  |  > OK,
>  |  >
>  |  > There are quite a lot of announcements on free software
>  |  on this list, but
>  |  > next to none on free services...
>  |  >
>  |  > What things are there out there? I would be curious if there are
>  |  > client/server implementations of for example GMT.
>  |  >
>  |  > I guess there are OGC standards for this, but a simple
>  |  CGI service that can
>  |  > do coordinate transformation would be kind of cool!
>  |  >
>  |  > Hugo,
>  |  >
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