IMSMA V4 Details

Nov 14, 2005 at 06:27 o\clock

Let me summarize what I have learned about IMSMA V4.

Software:

Based on some open-source software components like MySQL database
Written in Java with integrated GIS (ESRI Arc Engine based)
Designed as decentralized DB with data transfer methods (such as maXML)
Available in the languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic

Functionality:

Managing Hazard, Hazard Reduction, Accident and Victim, MRE (Activity?), QA, Location, Place
Visualization in GIS
Searching
Reporting via built in reports and (in the future) report building wizard
Export data via maXML
Setup: Gazetteer, User Account, Map, Organization

Additional Information:

Launch of the new IMSMA Version 4

Please feel free to add additional information as comments.

MineSeeker wrote at Nov 22, 2005 at 22:25 o\clock:Dear khstierli

You wrote IMSMA V4 will be open source. I do not believe that IMSMA will be open source. Mainly due to the fact that ESRI ArcGIS Engine is commercial software and IMSMA itself is not published under an open source license like GPL at all!

While Java is often used for open source projects and MySQL is one, IMSMA is NOT open source - as the GICHD states on its web page.

This is surely a pitty as the community could really benefit from IMSMA being open source.
khstierli2 wrote at Nov 23, 2005 at 05:08 o\clock:Dear MineSeeker

Thanks for your comments. You are right, I corrected the statement about open software.

I agree with your statement, that the community could really benefit from IMSMA being open source. It looks like the current development goes into the opposite direction.