Hi Peter,<div><br></div><div>if you plan to have more shape files in the future you can use MapServer + Gdal. If you use Linux, GDAL and MapServer are pretty easy to install... it integrates very well with Google Maps and it can read any format supported by gdal.</div>
<div><br></div><div>hope that helps..</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webwiz@pl.net">webwiz@pl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Guys and Girls,<br>
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After an embarrassingly protracted google session, im not doing so well. What i need is to turn a shapefile (from a trimble device) into a png as part of a web app.<br>
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Ideally it would be the simplist lightest tool/s that can do the job, bearing in mind that im working in php/mysql.<br>
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I found a script which did the whole thing in php (jjfmapper) which functions except development has stopped, and it doesnt support the version of shapefile i have. (jjfmapper reports it to be type 768)<br>
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The GDAL/OGR library is reported to do conversions of shapefiles to mysql. Would need to add on the png rendering using GD2. Im sure i dont need to reinvent that.<br>
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And theres something called mapserver which seems to be a complete service. Sounds heavy.<br>
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The shapefile concerned contains a moderate number of simple polylines. Ideally the end result would be a png, a world file, and/or going further, being able to overlay the png over an aerial photo or png basemap.<br>
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If your'e interested a sample shapefile is here:<br>
<a href="http://www.zoneblue.org/files/BLK1_log.shp.zip" target="_blank">http://www.zoneblue.org/files/BLK1_log.shp.zip</a><br>
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with the desired result here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.zoneblue.org/files/BLK1_log.shp.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.zoneblue.org/files/BLK1_log.shp.jpg</a><br>
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Appreciate any pointers.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Peter Scott<br>
NZ<br>
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