Smallworld + ESRI = GIS Love

Someone pointed out to me recently that ESRI provides some really cool web services that you can host as a data appliance behind your firewall. And with existing WMS SOM functionality or other tile-based Smallworld client code, you can easily expose those ESRI data layers as layers in Smallworld. With a data appliance approach you can host it all in-house. If you decide you don't want to host the server in-house you can probably also arrange to use ESRI's cloud-based web services.

Stop reading here if you don't want to see a commercial appeal. (I don't use Google AdWords on my blog so I have created my own ads :) )

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iFactor Consulting (my employer) has a really cool product called Web Maps Connector. It was originally built to integrate Bing Maps services into Smallworld. But now it can do so much more... from Commercial map service providers, satellite imagery providers, air-photo suppliers, country-specific map providers, open source data, 3rd party data built on open source data and WMS read capabilities, there is something for everyone. Oh, and now it can also integrate ESRI web services into Smallworld. Request more information at info@ifactorconsulting.com