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

[Chris Holmes]

Thanks for the OpenGeo Suite shout out, but at 250 megs for the 
download, installing a full database and webserver, I think it's about 
the furthest thing from "light" on this list.

Hoping to get it to the point where it's a cloud deployment and you 
could just make what you want to do a handful of api calls, but we're 
not quite there yet.

C

On 8/16/10 6:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
> 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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