[OSGeo-Discuss] Best tool, shapefile to png, web

[Peter]

Hi Guys and Girls,

After an embarrassingly protracted google session, im not doing so well. What i need is to turn a shapefile (from a trimble device) into a png as part of a web app.

Ideally it would be the simplist lightest tool/s that can do the job, bearing in mind that im working in php/mysql.

I found a script which did the whole thing in php (jjfmapper) which functions except development has stopped, and it doesnt support the version of shapefile i have. (jjfmapper reports it to be type 768)

The GDAL/OGR library is reported to do conversions of shapefiles to mysql. Would need to add on the png rendering using GD2.  Im sure i dont need to reinvent that.

And theres something called mapserver which seems to be a complete service.  Sounds heavy.

The shapefile concerned contains a moderate number of simple polylines. Ideally the end result would be a png, a world file, and/or going further, being able to overlay the png over an aerial photo or png basemap.

If your'e interested a sample shapefile is here:
   
   http://www.zoneblue.org/files/BLK1_log.shp.zip

with the desired result here:

   http://www.zoneblue.org/files/BLK1_log.shp.jpg

Appreciate any pointers.

Regards

Peter Scott
NZ