Re: IBM i based GIS products?

We use the Mapquest Open API's because they are free when used behind a
firewall not available to the public where Google was going to cost a
large sum of money. We are a trucking company and have an application
that shows a US map with all our trucks on it as well as info about the
load they are hauling. Users can zoom in and out on the map if they
desire. Mapquest has several api's including geocoding - not sure how
hard or easy that is to map to a school district boundary though. The
mapping application we have uses CGIDEV2 to access the api's via
Javascript and is fairly simple to do. Here is the link describing
Mapquest's open api's http://open.mapquestapi.com/ Just be careful on
using anyone's api's and the licensing requirements, I found there are
several available and most cost quite a bit depending on how you use
them - many were free if it was a publicly available web site as long as
it didn't go over some usage amount.

Scott Mildenberger


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Google Map APIs may require payment over so many queries. I think its
10,000 or something like that, so depending on the application.

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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

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Booth Martin
802-461-5349
http://www.martinvt.com

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