Subject: MapServer and postGIS = another OpenSource Success story
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 17:10:23 AKDT
The Minnesota DNR "Recreation Compass" provides users with more than
10,000 web pages, reports and maps via a single application.
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/maps/compass.html
Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland, Australia:
create an online permitting application ... tree-clearing permits.
Story in GeoPlace
"Open Source GIS Fights the Three-Horned Monster":
http://www.geoplace.com/gw/2002/0208/0208gis.asp
They used a PostGIS geographical objects database behind MapServer.
-- PostGIS <http://postgis.refractions.net/> adds support for geographic
objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database.
-- "PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source relational
database management system." http://www.us.postgresql.org/features.html
MapServer allows you to create "geographic image maps":
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/
University of Minnesota/NASA, OpenSource ...
... for building spatially enabled Internet applications. The
software builds upon other popular OpenSource or freeware systems
like
Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, libTIFF, Perl and others.
MapServer will run where most commercial systems won't or can't, on
Linux/Apache platforms.
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