[Mapserver-users] Facilities Database with Mapserver.

[Claude Philipona]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:07:18AM -0800, Mat Brletic wrote:

> If anyone out there can provide a list of (preferably) open source 
> software packages that might help us, we would be grateful.
We have built are using an application based on
Mapserver/PHPMapscript/PostgreSQL-PostGIS to present the campus plan of
EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne):
http://plan.epfl.ch/ (in french complete)
http://map.epfl.ch/ (in english, help only in french for now)

We are using AutoCAD drawing produced by the architects and the FM unit.
Every night a FME script (software from http://www.safe.com) process the
data (generalization, conversion to OGC SFS) and upload the result into
PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Some quasi-static information are transformed into
shapefiles.  More information about the system (only in french):
http://sawww.epfl.ch/SIC/SA/publications/FI02/fi-7-2/7-2-page1.html

The system is linked to the staff and room datybase (non-spatial).

You can locate:
- a room by the form post: MAC1585
- a room by the url: http://plan.epfl.ch?room=MAC1585
- a unit by the abreviation in post : PHOT
- a unti by the abreviation in url : http://plan.epfl.ch?room=phot
- a person using the form post: for example "crevoisier"

Other Intranet services are being built using the base system to offer
special functionnalities to the administrative and technical staff.

I hope it helps,

Claude

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