Mapguide Opensource is also a good option worth considering, the GUI for authoring is a commercial product from Autodesk, but it's very easy to use. The server runs on both linux and windows and supports a wide range of spatial data formats.
http://mapguide.osgeo.org/ z On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:16 AM, David Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy, > > You may also want to explore an OpenSource Web mapping solution, like > MapServer, that can create a WMS from shapefile data. > > David. > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Christopher Schmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:08PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote: >>> I see the arcgis example in the FAQ section that uses a png layer from >>> ArcGIS server. But does anyone know if openlayers supports a shapefile >>> format? >> >> In general, OpenLayers works with images; you can also work with vectors >> in some formats, but the way to display a 'map' is to display it by >> first rendering it to images. >> >> ESRI has a "WMS Connector" for their ArcGIS Server products, as I >> understand it, that will allow the server to act as a WMS that >> OpenLayers can talk to. >> >> Additionally, ESRI has some tools to create pre-cached version of tiles: >> these can (as far as I know) be generated from either vector or raster >> data: the key thing is that for OL to consume it, it has to be in either >> an image format (WMS) or to be one of our supported vector formats (GML, >> KML, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, etc.) >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Christopher Schmidt >> MetaCarta >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Zac Spitzer - http://zacster.blogspot.com (My Blog) +61 405 847 168 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
