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

[Noli Sicad]

Peter,

You want "light" and easy to start developing your WMS in Windows or in Linux.

Get OpenGeo Suite.
http://opengeo.org/

# PostGIS
# GeoServer
# GeoWebCache
# OpenLayers
# GeoExt

Recent version of the Community Edition is 2.1.2.
http://opengeo.org/community/suite/download/

Read the WMS Benchmarking - August 16, 2010 (Today's Blog)
http://blog.opengeo.org/

You want beautiful maps - Mapnik. OpenStreetMap (OSM) use Mapnik.
QuantunNik plugin in
QGIS can render Mapnik in QGis can produce beautiful png.

http://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/quantumnik/wiki/Home

Noli

On 8/17/10, Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 August 2010 13:41, Peter <webwiz at pl.net> wrote:
>> And theres something called mapserver which seems to be a complete
>> service.
>>  Sounds heavy.
>
> MapServer is not so much a complete server, as just a simple CGI
> executable (about a megabyte in size). You only need to craft a MAP
> file, which is a tricky text file telling the layer source and how it
> is stylized. You can connect to most things, including MySQL[1] and
> Shapefiles. To get a PNG, you only need to POST a few parameters to
> the executable, and it sends you the image file back. You can also use
> it with MapScript for PHP or Python. There is lots of documentation[2]
> and even a book[3].
>
> -Mike
>
> [1] http://mapserver.org/input/vector/mysql.html
> [2] http://mapserver.org/introduction.html
> [3] http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590594908
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