[GRASS-user] QGIS & GRASS for online use

[Hamish]

jgarcia wrote:
> What is the way you would advise to operate online (for any user with
> Internet Access) against a common GIS server with the full (or at least a
> good deal of) capabilities of GRASS?

perhaps PyWPS or OpenLayers could help?
  http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
  http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/web.php


> Is it necessary to use mapserver, or is it possible to use a GRASS a a
> geodata server, and directly access them through QGIS remote clients? If
> mapserver is still required, do you know if there are some future plans to
> directly access GRASS as a server from remote GRASS or QGIS clients?

both GRASS and QGIS have WMS input ability, now GDAL does as well.

additionally QGIS has an easy to use mapsever output plugin AFAIK.


Hamish