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P. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:11 AM, James David Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Bit of a geneal question this rather than something specific, but I've > been following a few of the other queries on here talking about Open > Layers, Geoserver and Google Maps, and it's reminded me that I really > want to try and learn how to connect/convert my local PostGIS database > into something that renders on a webpage. I realise that this is a big > question, but wondered if anyone could give me a basic few steps as > way of pointers - and then perhaps some links to more detail where I > can go and learn how to do each step myself? I'm very happy to learn - > just not sure where to start! > > To be clear, at the moment I have a local database on my machine. I > guess really I need to move this database to an online environment and > host it somewhere? Then I need to build some webpages with a map, that > interact with the database? There's no specific project here, just > something I want to learn in my spare time as it'll be useful for the > future. > > As you can see my knowledge of how to put all this together is a bit > vague to say the least. If it helps I have basic experience of Java + > Javescript including the Google Maps API, am decent at HTML and CSS, > and am becoming familiar with PostgreSQL and PostGIS - I just don't > know how to join them all up at the moment - or where the gaps in my > knowledge are. > > Best wishes > > James > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
