Thursday, August 28. 2008

Web GIS vs. Web-enabled GIS

I can't say I'd run into the latter term until today in the Ionia Sentinel-Standard (Michigan). The term is in the headline and throughout the "we're getting Web-enabled GIS" story. Allied Information Solutions will create the system at a cost of $20,000 plus $5000/year maintenance. I wondered if the consultants, AIS use the term? I found two webpages that might relate to the company one was a placeholder listing three offices, the other was "under construction."

So, I look at Clinton County's site, noted in the article as being up and running with Web-enabled GIS. I found this page which uses the terms:
On-Line Mapping Service and On-Line Mapping. That said the text confirms "This is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application brought to you by Clinton County, MI. It was designed by PlanSight LLC using ArcIMS."

I'm thinking this won't be sorted out anytime soon!

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You're right. We've just begun to see the marketing wars around "Web-whatever". Options range from eSpatial's Web GIS to old client-server stuff that's been crowbarred into a portal.

This will sort out, but not anytime soon. Check back in a couple years.

#1 David Sonnen (Link) on 2008-08-29 09:52 (Reply)

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