[mapserver-users] Setting up MapServer (Request for Info)

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

On 28 Aug 2002 at 0:49, benkarl at texas.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm working a web development project where we would like to put 
> street maps on pages showing the location of specific sites by 
> street address.  Basically, we want the same sort of thing 
> MapQuest or Yahoo Maps can do, but we can't afford the $4500 
> per year that MapQuest wants to let us put maps on our own pages. 
>  I started looking into alternatives and found MapServer.  
> 
> Our current configuration is a Windows NT machine at Dellhost so 
> we pretty much need to go with cgi, though I suppose we could get 
> a linux host if we needed something else.  I am aware of the 
> Tiger/Line data from the census bureau for street locations.  
> 
> What I'd like to ask about right now is if I can get Mapserver to do 
> what I want and what, at least generally, would be involved in doing 
> it. If someone already has this information out there somewhere, I'd 
> love a pointer to it.  

1) You would need to get the Tiger/Line data and convert it to shape 
files.
2) Set up a mapserver map file to render your maps
3) Build an application in Mapscript or using mapserver CGI to render 
your maps
4) Code or license a GeoCoding application that you can interface to 
your mapserver application.

By the way, I have a mapserver running with Tiger data that I 
translated into shapefiles and interfaced with a geocoding 
application that I wrote. You can see it at 
http://iMapTools.com/demos

Hope this helps,
   -Stephen Woodbridge

> Thanks!
> 
> Ben Krauskopf
> benkarl at texas.net
> 
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