(sorry for the cross-posting to the openlayers and mapserver listserver - I believe this is relevant to both)
Thank you for helping with my beginners questions. I now have both MapServer and OpenLayers working for the maps on the http://www.ecomapcostarica.com website. This website documents an ecological study of a rain forest reforestation site in Costa Rica. University of Dallas students will be performing the field work as a part of their Field Ecology class. Their class started today and they have already posted their first blog comments. We fly on Sunday, and will be 'in the field' for about a week. We shall have the students blogging, as well as live map updates, and the posting of new panoramic photos as we build them (yes we have internet access in the rain forest!). So feel free to bookmark the site and take a look over the next two weeks. For the map side of things, we quickly realised that Google Maps and Virtual Earth simply did not have the required level of detail for Costa Rica, so I had to create my own mapping application. I chose MapServer to serve the maps, but quickly discovered OpenLayers which greatly improved the user experience. The end result is quite a mix! There are two main versions: http://www.ecomapcostarica.com/map/index.shtml http://www.ecomapcostarica.com/map/index_ve.shtml For a base map, the first map uses a SHP file of the outline of Costa Rica and 1st level admin boundaries delivered by MapServer via WMS. The second uses Virtual Earth for a base map. MapServer WMS also delivers the 'Synthetic Stream' data (also a SHP file) and the 'ASTER' satellite image (a GeoTIFF). OpenLayers brings in two KML layers that have the map data, annotation, and icons that we shall be adding to next week. The icons layer also has popups (I'm having group all 'clickable' shapes on the icons layers due to that bug I asked about last week). Then, just to liven things up, the survey grid is drawn at run-time by Javascript. This grid will have to be relocated on the first day - ie. recomputed/etc. So we might as well have the computation on the webpage, instead of using Excel/Python/whatever and a load of KML text editing. Best regards, Richard -- Richard Marsden Winwaed Software Technology LLC http://www.winwaed.com Tools and Add-ins for MapPoint - http://www.mapping-tools.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
