In the current context, the development of the three project would involve the use of technologies used by Burdziej (excluding PHP) and also requires additional technologies such as .NET and UDIG.
Due to the involvement of so many technologies, development of the three projects using these technologies was quite complicated.
UMN MapServer could also be used as an alternative for GeoServer for developing thematic based applications. It provides rendering of maps through a MapFile. This file acts as a configuration file where the destination to geographic data and parameters for color representations could be set. There are two ways in which MapServer provides rendering of maps. One is through Common Gateway Interface (CGI) [6] controls and the other is through MapScript. Dynamic rendering of thematic map using CGI controls was not possible. This possibility was provided by MapServer's MapScript through various programming languages such as PHP and Python [18]. Although considerable amount of MapScript documentation is available for these programming languages, the availability of documentation for .NET components of MapServer is lacking. Since .NET was the chosen language for server side processing, MapServer was not considered as an option for development.