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My friend Diego Guidi is the smartest GIS/.NET developer I personally know here in Italy. He is the developer of NetTopologySuite, the port in the .NET world of the popular Java's JTS Topology Suite from VIVID Solutions. I wanted, sooner or later, write some stuff here about WMS and TMS, and now I am very happy that Diego asked me to publish this brilliant article about this topic.

First of all, let me thanks Paolo for hosting this post! I hope that this article can be interesting and useful like other stuff that you can find here…

Introduction

There are a lot of discussions out there about how to define Google Earth, Google Maps, and related apps… are they GIS? Viewers? Video games? Even a neologism was created: Neogeography. I think that all the folks out there have the same idea in mind: maybe Google don't make the same business as ESRI, but Google Earth is cool, and it's funny to play with it!

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In the previous post we have seen an introduction to FeatureServer, and we were just playing with the base edit sample, with the scribble layer.
Now it is time to use FeatureServer with our datasets: I am assuming that you will want to create FeatureServer services for shapefiles, PostGis layers, OpenStreetMap, Twitter and Flickr.

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