[Qgis-user] QGIS WEB Presence Capability

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Hi Rudy,

QGIS does not, but QGIS is only one application of the OSGEO stack, and other applications in this suite can do this.

http://www.osgeo.org

For example, you have map data in shapefiles or PostGIS databases

You can use Geoserver or Mapserver (or a few other FOSS or expensive programs) to read these data sources & provide them via OGC web services such as WMS & WFS.

You can connect to such web services with QGIS (WMS natively & WFS via a plugin) to view the data.

You can use mapserver scripts, or javascript tools such as OpenLayers or GeoMoose to provide web clients to display these data.

One ESRI web mapping developer I have worked with used mapserver & Openlayers for one application he was building. He said the development environment was very primitive compared with ESRI- hand written mapfiles, etc. However he also said it took about 1/3 the time to implement it than it would have taken with ESRI tools, & it worked pretty much first go with no problems to debug & fix.

So simple, inelegant but robust & effective :-)

Tyler Mitchell's book on mapserver & related tools is a very good introduction. You can have a system with basic functionality up & running on Windows or Linux in about 10 minutes.

HTH,

  Brent Wood

--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Rudy BALANCE <rudy at balancernd.com.au> wrote:

> From: Rudy BALANCE <rudy at balancernd.com.au>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS WEB Presence Capability
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:21 PM
> Many of the commercial applications
> Eg:  ARC GIS & Map INfo have the ability to provide
> a Web Based precense such that Internet users can browse
> various GIS data layers,
> 
> Many local authorities provide this capability through
> ESRI's Eview see:
> http://www.esriaustralia.com.au/esri/2181.html
> 
> Example Wollongong City COuncil:
> http://www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/planninganddevelopment/map.asp
> 
> 
> 
> DOES or WILL   QGIS have this capability
> ???
> 
> 
> Regards Rudy
> 
> 
> 
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