[Geomoose-users] gm3 first impression

[Eli Adam]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Brian Wilson <brian at wildsong.biz> wrote:
>> From what I can tell it's only geared for MS4W at this point; there appears
>> to be
>> no other useful documentation. Running GIS services on Windows is in my
>
> Which documentation did you check?  This quickstart seems to be for
> *nix, https://geomoose.github.io/gm3/quickstart.html
>
>
>> opinion
>> just way too much work. I am trying to use docker these days.
>
> ...specifically with docker.   I found that NVM helped get a more
> recent node and npm meeting the minimum version requirements.
>
>>
>> The developer quickstart says to look at the "examples".
>> The example in "desktop" has a README, just has a MATRESS LABEL in it.
>
> Yes, this is for developer testing instead of production but it does
> still go through the process of setting up GeoMoose running in Docker.
> I also found the command
>
> cp ../config.js.example config.js
>
> might be more specific as
>
> cp ~/geomoose/gm3/examples/config.js.example
> ~/geomoose/gm3/examples/desktop/config.js
>
>>
>> The developer doc mentions docker but appears incomplete. It says to fork
>> the source repo and then references the docker folder, which does not exist.
>>
>> Finally I see this buried in a README: "We will have additional Getting
>> Started guides once we have demo packages ready for download."
>
> There are tarballs for download on Linux,
> https://geomoose.org/download.html.  GeoMoose runs on any thing with
> MapServer 7.0+ and some webserver (usually Apache).
>
> The MS4W Quickstart can in part be used on Linux too.  MS4W is a very
> convenient easy way to setup a MapServer and Apache environment on
> Windows with many preconfigured drop-in-place applications ready to
> run as well.  Things in that package can be used as a guide of what to
> do on Linux as well.  For instance, this Apache .conf file with the
> preconfigured MS4W file paths probably isn't going to work on Linux
> but will give you a good idea of how to configure  Apache on Linux,
> https://github.com/geomoose/gm3-admin/blob/master/ms4w/httpd_gm3.conf
>

There is now a more Linux specific quickstart,
https://github.com/geomoose/gm3/blob/master/docs/quickstart-ec2.md

Hope that is helpful, Eli


>
> Merry Mapping and best regards, Eli
>
>
>>
>> *sigh*
>>
>> I guess I will check back in a few months. Probably I could march through
>> setting up version 2.x and get some familiarity but with 3.x out I can't see
>> that as being worthwhile, 3.x appears to be substantially changed and life
>> is short.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
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