[Geomoose-users] OpenWebGIS

[Dan Little]

Does anyone keep tabs on QGIS' Web Mapping tool? They were trying to
do some mapnik/WSGI thing a few years ago that I thought was somewhat
exciting.  Otherwise, working with QGIS could involve a few steps:

1. Parsing the QGIS project files (easy enough IIRC)
2. Collecting/normalizing the data.
3. making a mapbook.
4. generating mapfiles (probably the hard part for anything complex).

BrianF and I have discussed this idea quite a few times over the years
but have never been able to get enough funding/interest to really move
it forward.  Once people get over the basic threshold of learning
mapfiles they don't seem to be bothered much.



On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:17 PM, James Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a Rails app years back that did this too.   Upload a shapefile and
> dynamically generated a mapbook and mapfile.  The styling was all SLD and a
> default style was generated based on the shapefile type but had to be hand
> edited from there.
>
> On Dec 16, 2015 12:15 PM, "Brent Fraser" <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
>>
>> Eli,
>>   I totally agree with your 90% approach to support.
>>
>>   Not too sure about the QGIS extension option.  I've used an existing
>> plugin to generate map files and was not impressed.  It had some trivial
>> bugs, but the main problem was the level of coding needed to replicate a
>> QGIS project in a map file with all the coordinate systems and styling
>> options (and mapserver versions!).
>>
>>   To some extent, I would have a similar problem with my Python code, but
>> its main purpose is just to get the mapbook and template syntax right.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Brent Fraser
>>
>> On 12/16/2015 10:28 AM, Eli Adam wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey Dan,
>>>>
>>>> Some of their features are intriguing:
>>>>      View -> Timeline
>>>>      Project -> Save/Load
>>>>      About -> Game
>>>>
>>>> And
>>>>      Edit -> Upload Shapefile
>>>>
>>>>      That last one is interesting as I had built some Python to take a
>>>> shapefile and generate a GeoMoose-friendly Maperver .map file and
>>>> snippets
>>>> for Geomoose's mapbook.xml (when answering some support questions the
>>>> person
>>>> frequently sends me a shapefile and a plea for help).  But shipping the
>>>> Python to users would just generate more support questions.   Maybe the
>>>> answer is to host the Python (or the PHP equivalent) on the Geomoose.org
>>>> site?
>>>
>>> A QGIS extension that exports the same might be an option as well.
>>>
>>> For users I support, the goal is to take 90% of the users to what they
>>> need with GeoMoose.  The remaining 10% getting the higher effort to do
>>> custom one-off projects for them, design some other process and
>>> system, or install and train them in QGIS or ArcMap.  Trying to
>>> shoehorn the last 10% into your all purpose tool takes way more than
>>> 10% of the effort and is not worth it.  Or at least that is my
>>> approach.
>>>
>>> Eli
>>>
>>>
>>
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