Andrew, I'd look at the list of open source GIS software at FOSS4G. I haven't had a chance to look at the sites you mention but I can give you some pointers...
For producing a map that appears on the web you'll need a map library (Leaflet or Openlayers), some data of interest and some background mapping. The background mapping can be openstreetmap, google maps or bing for example. The data of interest will be a combination of attribute tabular data and the geometries. KML might be a reasonable data format for you. To get the data into a GIS state you'll probably need a desktop GIS and QGIS is pretty popular for that. You'll have to make sure the data you produce is the spherical mercator projection used by OSM, Google Maps. EPSG:3857 is the projection identifier and QGIS will be able to handle the projection transformation. Take a look at the FWTools installation of QGIS as that also installs OGR/GDAL - useful for your transformations. Sorry that's a bit rushed. Drop me a pm if you need more advice. I should mention there's sites (geocommons.org i think is one) where they'll take your attribute data and with a commonly-known column such as a postcode zipcode, country name they'll convert into a map for you. Andy B On Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 06:07 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > Dear all, > > Recently, I came across this fantastic source of information about > public health from the UK Government (called Public Health Outcomes > Framework: http://www.phoutcomes.info) > > Separately, I also notice this shaded map giving a pictorial > representation for one of the indicators of health re. mental health: at > this site http://www.nepho.org.uk/cmhp/ > > Is there a simple way to take the data from the > http://www.phoutcomes.info site and then for any of the health > indicators to produce a shaded map as shown for mental health above? > (Incidentally, I'm most interested in air quality/air pollution shown at > http://www.phoutcomes.info/public-health-outcomes-framework/domain/4 as > '3.01 - Fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution') > > I can't see this option of pictorial map representation on the > http://www.phoutcomes.info site. Still, really great resource! Any > suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Andrew Wood > http://www.cleanairuk.org > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/andy%40planetnomad.com _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
