[GSDI Technical] The Emergence of GeoCMS

[Kate Lance]

This message was posted to the GIS-Pacnet List by Franck Martin, ICT Specialist
franck at sopac.org, SOPAC, Fiji
 
Franck Martin writes...
"Geospatial Content Management Systems (GeoCMS) are emerging. Take a CMS like tikiwiki and mix it with mapserver and you get a GeoCMS. The advantage of marrying the two technologies is to solve, simply, the metadata problem. Every map and every layer can be linked to a wiki page explaining what is all about in a free form. Every wiki page can contain a map to illustrate the contents. GeoCMS makes Metadata easy! You can even have a georeferenced image gallery, the location of your site subscribers and even more..."
http://technology.slashgisrs.org/technology/05/11/08/039222.shtml 
 
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