To give some background - Broadly speaking, <span>I want to help create an open online mapping platform like openstreetmap that does polygons (OSM only does lines).<br>
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Basically,
I'm envisioning something where someone can add polygons such as
historical nations, and then be able to animate them. I should be able
to type in, say, "1900" and see the way the world was then. I can then
edit a map, changing and adding polygons, and their colors and metadata.
I should also be able to view areas by, say, population density and
other statistics.<br>
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I've received a great deal of help on the OSGeo general mailing list:<br>
(1) <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-July/009188.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-July/009188.html</a><br>
(2, continued) <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-August/009200.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-August/009200.html</a><br>
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</span><span>I was thinking of installing openlayers first, but if I just installed geomoose, I'd get it all done at once...</span><span><br>
As of now, I am considering installing both mapserver via geomoose and geoserver, and trying them both out.<br>
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Some more questions:<br>
</span>Does anyone think there is a way I can just use the tools through a server providing the tools as a free service?<br>
If I should just go ahead and install everything on my own server, I was
thinking of setting up a server through godaddy, a third-party service.
Is this a bad idea? I don't want to have any problems, and they're good
with customer support. I have no experience setting up a server on my
own...<br><br><br>Nitin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Nitin Gadia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nittyjee@gmail.com">nittyjee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>I would like to install a server, and install geomoose on it.<br>How do I do this??<br>I'm very new to doing this, so please bear with me.<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Nitin<br>
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