[DotNet-OSGeo] Too quite...

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Steve,

Do you have any interests in cartography?

I was kicking around ideas for an open source cartography engine with
another Dot Net programmer at the OSGeo. Let me know if you are
interested in getting involved.

Landon

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Stephen Wealands <srweal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> This is my first post here after seeing that the list existed just recently.
> Just thought I’d share what I do on this front.
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> I’m using .NET with the GDAL/OGR C# bindings on the server, crossed with
> OpenLayers on the client to provide basic web mapping apps for clients
> throughout Australia. Most have relatively simple data input/output needs
> and a desire to manage multimedia files combined with with spatial data. I
> provide them with a means to edit, view, report and retrieve all this stuff
> in a nicely formatted manner.
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> My development experience in this has involved piecing together bits and
> pieces from web examples, trying to get the basics going. Once that happens,
> I typically find I re-write things to work exactly as I want. I store
> geometries as WKB, but transfer them to the client as GeoJSON. I use OGR for
> conversions and OSR for projections. I render image tiles using the SharpMap
> library, which works pretty well and renders nice line work, symbols and
> fills. For background imagery, I tend to pre-render JPG tiles using
> gdal2tiles and then serve them direct from Amazon S3. For public facing
> sites, I can use the Google basemaps or OSM.
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> If there are others using a similar ‘stack’ of tools, I’d be keen to
> exchange notes and potentially collaborate on some work. You can contact me
> directly if that sounds like you. I'm not great on the client-side
> development stuff, so if you are keen for some work in this area, maybe we
> could get it happening.
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> Steve
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