[OSGeo-Discuss] CMS recommendations for web GIS integration

[Bryce L Nordgren]

We are using Joomla, but no GIS portal yet.  We are investigating how tough
it would be to integrate a WMS client (current leader is Mapbender) to it.
(Our backend is PostGIS/Geoserver.)

discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org wrote on 08/31/2007 12:49:58 PM:

> Jesse Cleary wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've a GIS and CMS question to pose.  What open source CMS do folks use

> > to organize your project website(s) and web GIS applications?
> >
> > We are currently using Plone as our CMS for project collaboration and
> > web GIS (standard MapServer + Postgres/PostGIS and PHP/mapscript front
> > end).  GIS app integration relies on iframes (ugh).
> >
> > In addition, we have not been able to get much user participation in
> > content creation from many of our project partners despite repeated
user
> > training sessions etc.  This might be a Plone thing (too complex?) or a

> > cultural issue (I'm not a web developer, why would should I participate

> > if some web guru can do it better?)
> >
> > Are there alternatives that we should consider that could integrate
> > tighter with our existing MapServer apps and might address our user
> > complexity hesitance?  We are aware of PrimaGIS for Plone but have not
> > gone beyond some limited initial testing.
> >
> > I realize I haven't specified any of our other requirements, but I just

> > want a short list of alternatives to Plone with web GIS integration
> > potential.  Thanks for any suggestions you might have...
> >
> > Apologies for cross-postings, but wanting to get a diverse set of
> > responses...
> >
> >
> > Jesse
> >
>
> Jesse,
>
> If you have any questions about the web GIS stuff UNC's Ancient World
> Mapping Center is doing at
>
> http://pleiades.stoa.org/
>
> let me know. We've integrated OpenLayers and Plone, which I think more
> or less deprecates many uses of PrimaGIS (which will be making more and
> more use of OpenLayers as well). If you absolutely have to develop your
> web GIS in PHP, you should probably switch to a PHP CMS.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
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