Re: IBM i based GIS products?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure of this is in the arena that interests you; this may not 
be responsive to your needs.

However I have used Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to mess around with this 
idea.
http://www.martinvt.com/JavaScript/Bird_Kill_Map/bird_kill_map.html
That is a pretty primitive application but it shows the process.

The Google APIs are open and fairly easy to use.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/



On 6/21/2012 2:44 PM, Buck wrote:
> My boss floated a question regarding GIS and IBM i.
>
> Today, various departments extract customer data out of our DB2 tables,
> geocode it themselves and then image it with MapInfo.  That works OK,
> except that each department has a different (read more or less obsolete)
> copy of the customer information, and they each have different geocoding
> databases.  The boss would like to see all the geocoding brought onto
> the midrange (database of record) and he'd also like to see the GIS
> queries done on the midrange as well.
>
> I don't think geocoding is going to be too hard (Doesn't WorksRight do
> that?) but GIS queries sound difficult.  A known use case is to import
> school district shape files from the state GIS service and do a query
> similar to '...where geocode inside_boundary(SchoolDistrict101)...'
>
> It seems to me that there must be some midrange companies using GIS, if
> only for web based store locators.  Any advice on what products are
> useful is gratefully appreciated.
>    --buck calabro