[GRASS5] grass on the web?

[David Piasecki]

Hamish,

I've been looking info MapServer for navigating in a mapquest-like web 
application, but it's rather cumbersome. In a different stand-alone 
application, I've been able to use the PNG Graphics Driver for GRASS. 
It works great, so I was thinking I could conceivably do the same for a 
web server. I can call GRASS executables from a PERL script and display 
the result as an image file in a web browser. I would imagine this 
would be similar to mapquest, and it seems much simpler and more 
straightforward. Am I misunderstanding something that mapserver does 
better than I could accomplish with a GRASS/PERL scheme?

David


On Apr 22, 2004, at 9:30 PM, Hamish wrote:

>> What are the best methods for interacting with GRASS via a web
>> interface?
>
>
> GRASSlinks (there are several flavours):
>
> http://pnwpest.org/glinks/index.html
>   (the Spearfish dataset may be of interest [Mount Rushmore, USA])
>
> http://www.agcrc.csiro.au/4dgm/grasslinks/
>
> http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/grasslinks/
> http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/glinks/about_gl.html
>
>
>
> UMN MapSever:
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/
>
> http://grass.itc.it/start.html
>   (click on "Start" demos)
>
>
>
> I think the difference is GRASSlinks is more for dynamic GIS queries 
> and
> MapServer is more for queries of static maps (eg mapquest.com)..
>
> There's a Java frontend out there somewhere as well, maybe that is
> useful.
>
>
>
> Hamish