Let's say http://watch.tampabay.com/homes/pinellas/neighborhood/allendale/
and http://houstoncrimemaps.com/neighborhood/university-place/ as examples. The key aspect here is that you extract attribute data with *spatial* operations (like operation on values belonging to a point within a polygon). This is far more cumbersome to do if you don't have access to the spatial operations on the DAL level (=lack of spatial indexes, more complex application code, etc). If you just want to show fairly statis maps and do no operations on the content itself except for maybe a 'show more' or a tooltip here and there on points, you don't need this. However if you want to interact with feature *data* based on map input, it's pretty much a must. On Apr 23, 11:22 pm, Tim Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, there *is* a definition. A geographic information system (GIS), > > or geographical information system, captures, stores, analyzes, > > manages, and presents data that is linked to location. In the context > > of web2py, it sure can make for a darn good interface to other GIS > > related tools, but has no GIS functionality on it's own. > > Yes. got that definition. > I think the integration stuff is more what I would like. > Or at least what I see as a good starter. > I would never do terrain analysis with a webgis system. > > > As an example > > of where the framework itself *is* part of a GIS, see Geodjango. In > > the first approach, you're pretty much limited by what your underlying > > apps can do. With the second, you can implement spatial oriented > > functionality yourself - and that's a significant difference. > > Do you have an example for such a geojango site? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
