Well said Brent. In the OpenSource Geospatial world, individual projects tend to specialize on one part of the 'stack' (desktop, maping server, database, etc.) Because many of these projects base their products on open standards, they tend to work quite well together.
In some cases, there are people who are active in multiple OSGEO projects. This gives good cross-pollination and helps ensure that products work well together. It is a good thing that QGIS is only focusing on the desktop. There are some other very good projects focusing on the Web map, Web services part of the stack. David. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rudy, > > QGIS does not, but QGIS is only one application of the OSGEO stack, and other > applications in this suite can do this. > > http://www.osgeo.org > > For example, you have map data in shapefiles or PostGIS databases > > You can use Geoserver or Mapserver (or a few other FOSS or expensive > programs) to read these data sources & provide them via OGC web services such > as WMS & WFS. > > You can connect to such web services with QGIS (WMS natively & WFS via a > plugin) to view the data. > > You can use mapserver scripts, or javascript tools such as OpenLayers or > GeoMoose to provide web clients to display these data. > > One ESRI web mapping developer I have worked with used mapserver & Openlayers > for one application he was building. He said the development environment was > very primitive compared with ESRI- hand written mapfiles, etc. However he > also said it took about 1/3 the time to implement it than it would have taken > with ESRI tools, & it worked pretty much first go with no problems to debug & > fix. > > So simple, inelegant but robust & effective :-) > > Tyler Mitchell's book on mapserver & related tools is a very good > introduction. You can have a system with basic functionality up & running on > Windows or Linux in about 10 minutes. > > HTH, > > Brent Wood > > --- On Thu, 3/4/10, Rudy BALANCE <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Rudy BALANCE <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS WEB Presence Capability >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:21 PM >> Many of the commercial applications >> Eg: ARC GIS & Map INfo have the ability to provide >> a Web Based precense such that Internet users can browse >> various GIS data layers, >> >> Many local authorities provide this capability through >> ESRI's Eview see: >> http://www.esriaustralia.com.au/esri/2181.html >> >> Example Wollongong City COuncil: >> http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/planninganddevelopment/map.asp >> >> >> >> DOES or WILL QGIS have this capability >> ??? >> >> >> Regards Rudy >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
