Hi John,<br>Another viewer alternative is GeoExt (<a href="http://www.geoext.org">www.geoext.org</a>). You can have a look at the samples <a href="http://www.geoext.org/examples.html#examples">http://www.geoext.org/examples.html#examples</a> and a mappanel together with a layer tree allows you to create easily a map viewer. As GeoExt uses OpenLayers, all OpenLayers formats are supported.<br>
If you need server capabilities, MapFish server (<a href="http://www.mapfish.org">www.mapfish.org</a>) let's you create easily REST services (CRUD) in order to expose/analyse geospatial data stored in PostGIS. See the quickstart: <a href="http://www.mapfish.org/doc/1.2/quickstart.html">http://www.mapfish.org/doc/1.2/quickstart.html</a>.<br>
Best regards,<br>Cédric<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Bob Basques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.b@gritechnologies.com">bob.b@gritechnologies.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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John,<br>
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For the most part, GeoMoose relies on what MapServer can serve up.
With the exception of Aerial Photo's, the tiling of data doesn't really
help all that much (IMO) with performance issues. The
OGR/Tiling/indexing can be used, but even it goes through MapServer.
All of my Aerial photo datasets run this route as well.<br>
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There are a couple of folks on the GeoMoose list that have brought up
the idea of using tiled services. And I imagine the support will be in
GeoMoose sommetime in the near future, you can get more info from the
GeoMoose list on that.<br>
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With the right indexing you can get pretty good performance, see here:
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<a href="https://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/" target="_blank">https://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/</a><br>
<a href="http://sandy.utah.gov/gis/" target="_blank">http://sandy.utah.gov/gis/</a><br>
<a href="http://gis.co.benton.mn.us:8081/geomoose/BentonCountyGIS.html" target="_blank">http://gis.co.benton.mn.us:8081/geomoose/BentonCountyGIS.html</a><br>
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or for more . . . .<br>
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<a href="http://www.geomoose.org/moose1/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=19&Itemid=27" target="_blank">http://www.geomoose.org/moose1/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=19&Itemid=27</a><br>
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bobb<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Thanks Bob. Yes, GeoMoose does seem impressive for what
it can do out of the box. I noticed there is a GeoMoose mailing list
and will likely signup for that. Quick question though: can the
GeoMoose interface directly display png tiles (e.g., output from
gdal2tiles/maptiler) or do rasters need to go through mapserver first?
(I have some imagery and openstreetmap data I think would be best
served through TMS tiles rather than mapserver raster data sources.)<br>
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- John<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Bob Basques
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us" target="_blank">Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">John,</font> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">First off, I'm close to the GeoMoose
project, now having said that. . .</font> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">GeoMoose will implement way faster out
of the box.</font> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Usually, the biggest hurdle, is if you
need to change the projection of the data you are displaying. If all
your data is in the same projection, it's not a problem at all, pretty
much can be a plug and play with the datasets using the samples that
come with the GeoMoose package. If you need to pull data from other
projections and overlay them onto your datasets then things get
decidedly trickier (in any application for that matter), although once
you have one layer working , it's usually not too big a deal to get
others working in GeoMoose too.</font> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Don't take my word for it though. I'm
sure others will pop on here and reply too, although, you might want to
try the Mapserver list with the question as well, there might be some
other viewers out there as well that might fit the bill.</font> </p>
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>>> John Callahan <<a href="mailto:john.callahan@udel.edu" target="_blank">john.callahan@udel.edu</a>>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> I'm looking for a
web mapping package that can be used to show 15 - 20 datasets at once.
These data just need to be turned on/off and maybe an identify/query
feature. Data are points, lines, polygons, and rasters (aerial imagery,
DEMs, etc...) Basically, I'm looking for a way to show these datasets
to a few dozen colleagues located in various depts.<br content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
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So far, MapGuide OS and GeoMoose seem to be the two best options. I
have used Mapserver and Postgis before and could use these again.
Vectors are mostly shapefiles and rasters are img or ESRI grids (I
could convert to png tiles using GDAL or something similar.)<br>
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<br>
Any thoughts on the ease of setup/config of GeoMoose vs MapGuide OS?
Any other obvious packages I'm missing? (I know about ka-map but don't
think it's being developed, and may not add anything over
GeoMoose/MapGuide.) In the past, I've used ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server for
such a purpose. However, I'm looking for an open source solution.<br>
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If all goes well, we may develop a more sophisticated application in
the future but for right now, viewing the data is most important.
Thanks for your help.<br>
<br>
- John<br>
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