Hello Richard, The site looks great!
Would you be OK with us adding this site to our gallery page: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Gallery ...? thanks! Erik On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Richard Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (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 > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
