ksumap: free mapserver powered GIS data hosting

[Dave Fuhry]

Allan,

   I'm not sure my scripts would help you as much as my general
methodology.  You will need to tweak Apache (and php if you use it) to
allow large file uploads, and use something like MegaUpload if you
want progress-monitored uploading.  Detect the uploaded file's type
and decompress it, then loop through all the source datafiles, loading
them into PostgreSQL/PostGIS (if you use it) and add them to the map
metadata.  You can see examples of this sort of thing at
http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2004-December/006523.html
and http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/dcmms/dcmms/admin/shapefile_loader.php?rev=1.50&view=markup
and I'm sure other places.

   Much of the rest would seem to be at least partially covered by
whatever web mapping interface you adopt (or develop).

Thanks,

Dave Fuhry

On 2/17/06, Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org> wrote:
> Dave,
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> This sounds really cool. I'll try it out as soon as I can. I'm
> interested from the point of view of whether your scripts are going
> to be available. I'd like to explore using them on the project
> described in the attached PDF.
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> Basically, I want to let people drop files into the Mac Mini via a
> web interface just as you describe. We also want to do the same thing
> for raster data and make that available via WMS/WCS.
>
>         Allan
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> On Feb 16, 2006, at 21:41, Dave Fuhry wrote:
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> > Lots of sites will host your email, blog, or photo galleries for free,
> > but I don't know of any that  do the same for your GIS data.  So I
> > created one.  It targets users who may lack the hardware, expertise,
> > or time to set up their own Mapserver environment.
> >
> > To try it out, create a zip file containing your project's shapefiles
> > and/or geotiff images.  Upload the zip file to the ksumap site.  Up
> > comes the familiar zoomable, pannable, queryable map interface.  From
> > there you can use the control panel page to customize symbology,
> > update or add data, and view the mapfile.  The data is accessible via
> > WMF/WFS too.  Basically, this is free GIS hosting.  The Geography
> > Department of Kent State University generously hosts this for me at:
> >
> > http://ksumap.geog.kent.edu/
> >
> > I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to make this a really handy GIS
> > tool.  In particular I would love to get the advice and/or
> > constructive criticism of anyone with experience hosting
> > mapserver-based services in business or academia.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave Fuhry
> >
>
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