Peter, You want "light" and easy to start developing your WMS in Windows or in Linux.
Get OpenGeo Suite. http://opengeo.org/ # PostGIS # GeoServer # GeoWebCache # OpenLayers # GeoExt Recent version of the Community Edition is 2.1.2. http://opengeo.org/community/suite/download/ Read the WMS Benchmarking - August 16, 2010 (Today's Blog) http://blog.opengeo.org/ You want beautiful maps - Mapnik. OpenStreetMap (OSM) use Mapnik. QuantunNik plugin in QGIS can render Mapnik in QGis can produce beautiful png. http://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/quantumnik/wiki/Home Noli On 8/17/10, Mike Toews <mwto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 August 2010 13:41, Peter <web...@pl.net> wrote: >> And theres something called mapserver which seems to be a complete >> service. >> Sounds heavy. > > MapServer is not so much a complete server, as just a simple CGI > executable (about a megabyte in size). You only need to craft a MAP > file, which is a tricky text file telling the layer source and how it > is stylized. You can connect to most things, including MySQL[1] and > Shapefiles. To get a PNG, you only need to POST a few parameters to > the executable, and it sends you the image file back. You can also use > it with MapScript for PHP or Python. There is lots of documentation[2] > and even a book[3]. > > -Mike > > [1] http://mapserver.org/input/vector/mysql.html > [2] http://mapserver.org/introduction.html > [3] http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590594908 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
