[mapserver-users] network analysis in mapserver

[Seamus Thomas Carroll]

Who is Roberto and what are is tools?  Do you know that best site to find 
information on distance calculations and proximity determinations.

Seamus


On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Robert W. Burgholzer wrote:

> I am no expert on network analysis, but it seems that the general
> techniques that one would apply in order to solve it should be supported
> by the basic functions of postGIS. This includes distance calculations
> and proximity determinations. 
> 
> Now, Roberto's suite of tools would probably be the way to go, but what
> is the status of integration of these with mapserver, or their
> integratability with postGIS??
> 
> In my experience with postGIS/postgres, if you are willing to do some
> coding :) the job can be done.
> 
> Roberto, I am interested in seeing some fo the code that you are putting
> together. perhaps we could have some overlap. As I mentioned before, I
> am primarily interested from a standpoint of hooking this stuff to
> postgres, thereby making the backend independent of any single GIS
> system, and potentially portable to other RDBMS's.
> 
> Rob
> 
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