{"id":211,"date":"2007-04-28T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2007-04-28T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T15:21:34","slug":"benefits-of-creating-web-applications-with-closed-source-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/211\/benefits-of-creating-web-applications-with-closed-source-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Creating Web Applications with Closed Source Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve created a lot of maps with Open Source tools. In fact, I put together my first online map with MapServer and a not-yet-released OpenLayers about a year ago this month. (Before that, I’d never actually done anything with geospatial tools.)<\/p>\n

I usually stick to my local Open Source world — reading Planet OSGeo<\/a>, rather than PlanetGS — but every now and then, I wander across the line to see what the rest of the world is using.<\/p>\n

What I find is a hell of a lot of Arc* names, and no real understanding of what benefit they provide. Although I understand that Analysis is difficult with existing open source tools — not that it’s necessarily better in proprietary tools —  it seems that much of what people want to do with software like ArcGIS is just make a map. <\/p>\n

So, what’s the benefit to using these tools? What doesn’t open source do… and how do we make them do them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve created a lot of maps with Open Source tools. In fact, I put together my first online map with MapServer and a not-yet-released OpenLayers about a year ago this month. (Before that, I’d never actually done anything with geospatial tools.) I usually stick to my local Open Source world — reading Planet OSGeo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locality-and-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}