Thanks for your feedback. I assume the book you are referring to is "Web Mapping Illustrated" I just happen to have that one. I have read a bit of it but hadn't got very far yet.
On 23/11/2007, Chris Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bradley, you might want to order Tyler Mitchell's book from O'Reilly. I > think you'll find lots of good stuff about using PostGIS together with > MapServer in there. > > But basically you can store point geometry with attributes in PostGIS > tables, and then access those through your MapServer interface. Think > of your search as a geometric and attribute query: I want to find all > the stores that sell Petrus and have more than 10 bottles in stock, > within a 50Km radius of Bend, Oregon. That sort of thing. You can > express that as SQL which PostGIS can execute for you. > > Bradley McLain wrote: > > Currently I am working on an Open Source GIS project and was looking > > for some advice on which way to go with it. > > > > What I am trying to do is use an openlayers front end which is > > queryable and searchable to display custom geodata (raster and vector) > > of our business using Google Maps as the backdrop. > > > > Currently I have Mapserver serving the custom data and OpenLayers > > importing and meshing it with Google maps (with some projection errors > > causing the maps to not line up perfect, but thats another topic for > > another day). > > > > I want to then hopefully use Openlayers to create a search function so > > users can search addresses of salespersons, growers etc and then they > > will be extracted from a database and the relevant data displayed. > > This data needs to be easily maintainable so it can be regularly and > > easily be updated. > > > > I have read a little about the postgreSQL database and PostGIS backend > > and was thinking about using this to house my salepersons etc data. > > However I have no knowledge or either of these programs. > > > > How do you suggest I go about this? > > > > Is what I am trying to do achievable? > > > > Has anything like this been done before and are there links to it? > > > > I would be very interested to hear all of your opinions on this and > > any tips or hints you may have. > > > > Cheers > > > > Brad > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Chris Hermansen · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel:+1.604.714.2878 · fax:+1.604.733.0631 > Timberline Natural Resource Group · http://www.timberline.ca > 401 · 958 West 8th Avenue · Vancouver BC · Canada · V5Z 1E5 > > C'est ma façon de parler. > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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