James Maguire

James Maguire’s 1999 Massey University thesis developed a Java viewing client for Genasys New Zealand GIS software. He built vector-data, image-download and database components for occasional GIS users and evaluated their performance against the existing server-based viewer. The thesis preserves a local software-development example from the expansion of networked GIS access.

James Maguire’s 1999 Massey University thesis records another approach to widening GIS access. Working with Genasys New Zealand software, he developed a Java viewing client with vector, image-download and database components. The project addressed the performance and usability of tools available to occasional GIS users. It places client-side GIS development within the late-1990s New Zealand software record, alongside the server-based web systems used by public agencies.