HI, Mapserver is exactly what its name says: a server of maps. Therefore not the right platform to do the kind of spatial analysis you describe. The analysis funcyionlity you describe could be realised in vaery many ways, in any kind of GIS software (eg. GRASS, QGIS, if you want to stay in the Open Source Domain). Or you could store the dtata serverside and write the analysis logic yourself in php (its not that complicated an analysis).
Mapserver could of course be used if you need to show the results in the form of a maps... Yours, -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer ITC University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede, The Netherlands +31 (0)53 4874253 On 04-06-10 21:14, "Gianni Olivieri" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo to all, > > i'm a new subscriber of this mailing-list... I'd like to build a > web service where an user insert two coordinates gps and the website > give out a profile of path with altitude to see if there are > visibility between the 2 given point.... > > I've thinked to do this with map server... it's ok? I'm on the right way? > I've already download some srtm maps in hgt format. > > I'd like to programm the client interface in php... > > For now I ask to you if this is the right way, if it's simple to query > map server to collect the altitude of a path. > > For now is all. > > Best regards. > > -- > Gianni Olivieri > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) University of Twente E-mail disclaimer The information in this e-mail, including any attachments, is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or action in relation to the content of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please delete the message and any attachment and inform the sender by return e-mail. ITC accepts no liability for any error or omission in the message content or for damage of any kind that may arise as a result of e-mail transmission. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
