Friday, July 11. 2008

NC County Implements MapGuide Open Source

I've been patiently waiting for a story like this since MapGuide Open Source (and its commercial counterpart MapGuide Enterprise from Autodesk) received positive reviews from tech folks. Now Chatham County, NC has moved onto the platform saving $20,000-$40,000 in software costs and annual fees, per Jeremy Poss, GIS specialist. The article doesn't mention the previous technology used but in an e-mail Poss highlighted past technologies from Understanding Systems Inc. (USI), now a owned by HTE Sungard and an app built on ESRI technology by TerraVerge.

The site looks quite elegant, though I was unable to view the map in Safari. I could do queries, however.

- Chatham Journal

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source at 07:42 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |

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I was unable to view the map in Firefox 3.0; the site appears to function as designed in IE7.

What's going on? There must be a bigger story here, I just can't put my finger on it quite yet.

#1 Atanas Entchev (Link) on 2008-07-11 11:28 (Reply)

The map works in Safari for Windows (XP).

#1.1 Atanas Entchev (Link) on 2008-07-11 13:57 (Reply)

The FireFox 3.0 problem is a know bug, and there is a fix available with a few lines of code. The Chatham County site must not have the fix yet.

#1.2 Dan Allen (Link) on 2008-07-14 15:51 (Reply)

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