Peter,
If all you want to do is render a shapefile to a png image using a command
line (once? twice? many times?) then mapserver's shp2img is a good solution, or
even GDAL's gdal_rasterize (http://www.gdal.org/gdal_rasterize.html).
But if you need a web mapping framework (html,
All,
Well, one could go old school, and just store the SHP files as the sourced
data. Have mapserver read them directly, either via a dynamically modified
index file, or via dynamically built MAPFILE. This would be just about the
least amount of moving parts and still get you what you are
Hi Guys and Girls,
After an embarrassingly protracted google session, im not doing so well. What i
need is to turn a shapefile (from a trimble device) into a png as part of a web
app.
Ideally it would be the simplist lightest tool/s that can do the job, bearing
in mind that im working in
Peter,
Ok, this is all going to sound a bit heavy (to use your words), but in the
end you'll have a lot more flexibilty with the end toolset.
I would suggest loading the SHP file data into a Database, Mysql would work,
but POSTGIS would be better. Then source that Spatial data via MapServer
Hi Peter,
if you plan to have more shape files in the future you can use MapServer +
Gdal. If you use Linux, GDAL and MapServer are pretty easy to install... it
integrates very well with Google Maps and it can read any format supported
by gdal.
hope that helps..
regards
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010
There is lots of documentation[2] and even a book[3].
Definition of a heavy app: one that requires a book. ;-) Honestly it sounds
scalable, robust, all round good, and ill take the thing to bed with me for the
next month, really, im a map freak.
MapServer is not so much a complete server,
Peter,
You want light and easy to start developing your WMS in Windows or in Linux.
Get OpenGeo Suite.
http://opengeo.org/
# PostGIS
# GeoServer
# GeoWebCache
# OpenLayers
# GeoExt
Recent version of the Community Edition is 2.1.2.
http://opengeo.org/community/suite/download/
Read the WMS
Thanks for the OpenGeo Suite shout out, but at 250 megs for the
download, installing a full database and webserver, I think it's about
the furthest thing from light on this list.
Hoping to get it to the point where it's a cloud deployment and you
could just make what you want to do a handful
On 16 August 2010 15:39, Peter web...@pl.net wrote:
- open a http socket to a CGI eg
Opps, my bad. MapServer operates in two modes: CGI and MapScript. It
looks like you want to go into MapScript mode for your application.
Available in almost all of the P languages: PHP, Perl and Python.
BTW, QGIS has mapserver export plugin that exports *.map file and at
this time save your layers (e.g. shapefile, etc.) in various format
(png, jpeg, agg, etc) and open your mapserver to see web map.
Noli
On 8/17/10, Mike Toews mwto...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 August 2010 15:39, Peter
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:41:41 -0700
Mike Toews mwto...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 August 2010 15:39, Peter web...@pl.net wrote:
- open a http socket to a CGI eg
Opps, my bad. MapServer operates in two modes: CGI and MapScript. It
looks like you want to go into MapScript mode for your
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