Puneet, I’ll second Brent and Jeff on the MS4W/GeoMOOSE approach.
With those two packages installed you end up with a fully functional demo which can be used as a reference to set up their local data. And once you have it working in Windows, you will be in a much better position to examine moving things to a LINUX distro down the road if that’s still the desire. Either way, you/they will find it easier to climb the learning curve with this approach, regardless of the long term solution you/they want to end up at. bobb On Dec 15, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Brent Fraser <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Puneet, To get them started, have a look at MS4W and Geomoose. MS4w is a Windows friendly install of apache, mapserver, etc. Geomoose is an easy to customize (edit a little XML and a map file) implementation of OpenLayers with a great demo web app and integrated with MS4W. http://ms4w.com/ http://www.geomoose.org/ Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 12/15/2016 9:46 AM, P Kishor wrote: hello OSGeo, I am helping some friends migrate their work to a real GIS (from a hodgepodge of AutoCad and MS-Excel spreadsheets). Unfortunately, for me, they use Windows (the last time I used Windows was 1997). I will try and convince them to start using some kind of Linux, at least for their geospatial needs, but assuming I can’t, what is the easiest way to get them started with web mapping? Fwiw, I am installing PostGIS for them and outfitting them with QGIS. So, the desktop/datastore part is covered. But I don’t have time to build a full fledged Leaflet app. Is there something I can install on a Windows machine that will read data from PostGIS and serve it on the web, and allow some level of customization of the interface? (Sadly, I don’t even know what version of Windows they are using, but I recall it had a lot of bouncy windows so it must be one of the newer versions.) Many thanks in advance, -- Puneet Kishor Just Another Creative Commoner http://punkish.org/About _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss "He who hesitates is a damned fool." - Mae West
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