[postgis-users] PostGIS to Web Map?

Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it
Wed Aug 17 11:00:37 PDT 2011


Il 17/08/2011 18:39, James David Smith ha scritto:
> Afternoon,
> 
> Thanks for all of your help on this area. For information I already do
> use QGIS, but wanted to experiment with ways to display the
> information from my database on a webpage/webmap. So that a) I can
> change what is displayed on the map using different queries and b) as
> data changes in my database, the data being shown on the map should
> change.
> 
> Given what you have all said, it seems like I should try one of QGIS
> Server, Geoserver or OpenGeo. Which one would be the simplest do you
> think?

Especially if you already use QGIS Desktop, QGIS Server is probably the simplest
option, see e.g.
http://linfiniti.com/2010/08/qgis-mapserver-a-wms-server-for-the-masses/
For WFS I would recommend TinyOWS http://www.tinyows.org/, extremely simple to
install and configure.
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc



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