Daniel Mayer wrote:
Right now I'm taking an Internet-based GIS class.
You probably know more about this than I do, so this is quite possibly a naive question. Is it possible to leverage any of the existing internet-based GIS stuff for our purposes? The Open GIS Consortium has a number of protocols that seem to do things similar to what we want, with software already built to do it --- the most relevant seems to be the Web Map Server (WMS), which worked pretty nicely the last time I played around with one. Basically generates raster-image views of an internal GIS-based map. There's also a Web Feature Server (WFS) if you want feature-type information rather than rasterized renderings to be served.
-Mark