On 14/11/11 20:29, steff wrote: > First, Iam new to this, I know GIS and I work in MapInfo and ArcMap.
Good start. The new bit for you is web applications. > 1: What Is required to make it possible for users to surf into my computer > and look at maps I made? > I now Know that GeoServer is the server that a client talks to, the client > is the service the user uses to see my maps. > But, What client is easiest to use, I want a client that is visual, you drag > buttons and point and click to create the interface. (1) Your users need a WMS client. OpenLayers is a popular WMS client in JavaScript with heaps of examples. If you create a web page that uses OpenLayers, you can configure it to combine multiple WMS layers of your choosing. http://openlayers.org/ (2) You need to deploy one or more WMS services that the client can consume. We of course prefer GeoServer. You should be able to use any HTML/CSS/JavaScript editor that is compatible with OpenLayers. I cannot advise you on this as I used a plain text editor. > Does GeoServer have Everything that I need GeoServer includes a copy of OpenLayers for demos. You should get your own copy and customise it for your own purposes. > What is this called, a server that show maps, is it called Mapserver, or > WMS-server? - As you can see Iam a complete novice about this. The server is the WMS (Web Map Service). The client creates WMS requests. The WMS server (e.g. GeoServer WMS or Mapserver) renders the images and delivers them to the client, which may be running in a web browser. > Any help or links that points me to tutorials about this subject would be > appreciated alot. I recommend the OpenLayers examples. http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
