MapGuide var min første webgis platform. Havde (selvfølgelig) sit eget filformat og en java plugin som viewer. Når det er sagt så var den forbløffende hurtig (selv i forhold til nutidens webgis løsninger). Det var også via MapGuide jeg kom ud på en årelang vandring med udviklingssproget Cold Fusion - et smart sprog, men alt for lidt udbredt - og det er ikke sjovt at være smart hvis man er den eneste som kan se det ... Men efter et par år med MapGuide skiftede mit firma til ESRI og så var den potte ude - dog ikke CF delen ... ArcIMS havde en CF connector ...
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MapGuide was my first WebGIS platform. It had (no surprise) it's own data file format and a Java plugin for the map. That said it was very fast (even compared to todays WebGIS solutions). It was due to MapGuide I ended up with Cold Fusion as my primary coding language for years to come - a cool language but not widely used - it's hard to be smart when nobody else get it ... but after a few years my company switched to ESRI and that was the end of my MapGuide adventure - not the CF part though - ArcIMS had a CF connector ...
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Until the mid- to late 1990s, GIS was confined to large workstations that could house both the data and the stand-alone software that made the end product of GIS (which was often a hard-copy map). However, it was at this time that the Internet and networks were also becoming more common, creating a population of users who had access to the World Wide Web.
GIS was slowly being adopted within the private sector through mainstream IT departments, but had already become a mature implementation in governmental and academic organizations. Because government and academia needed to distribute maps to users who lacked expensive and proprietary GIS software, Web mapping was born.
 A timeline of milestones in Web mapping. |
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