[mapserver-users] New tool to check out

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Hugues,

There is a lot of data behind this demo and one of the biggest 
challenges is finding good data. There is a lot of data for the US 
that is collected and made available by the US government. There is 
also some data made available by the US government for other 
countries.

So I will briefly explain what I did to create this demo.

1) vmap0 - is the data from www.nima.gov. It is vector map level 0 
(vmap0) data which is a 1:1,000,000 scale vector data for the whole 
world.

2) the vmap0 data is in a proprietary VPF format that needs to be 
converted into shape files and have a Mapserver application build 
around it. I used maplab to build the basic application and mapfile 
and then did some customization of it.

3) the Where in the world? geocoder required collecting various 
datasets from NIMA and USGS sources and loading them into a MySQL 
database and then writing a PHP app to talk with the user and then 
point to the Mapserver application. Again this piece required getting 
good data and then writing an application around the data.

I use Perl, C and/or PHP depending on what needs to be done. Perl is 
great for parsing data and loading the databases, PHP is great for 
developing Mapscript applications and web user interfaces and C for 
servers and where performance is an issue.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards,
  -Stephen Woodbridge
   http://iMapTools.com

On 19 Sep 2002 at 22:34, Hugues Parvillers wrote:

> Sorry but
> 
> I don't know where datas come from but this is quite fantaisist for
> France.
> 
> Also I would like to be sure what the challenge or performance is in
> such demos ?
> 
> H/P
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tom.Kralidis at ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca a écrit :
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: woodbri at swoodbridge.com [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:00 AM To:
> > > mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu Subject: [mapserver-users] New
> > > tool to check out
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just got a world-wide place name geocoder working. It has over 7
> > > million records in it and it links the results to a Mapserver
> > > (modified maplab) viewer using vmap0 data for the world base map.
> > >
> > > I will be making some changes to both over time, but thought I
> > > would share them with you if your interested.
> > >
> > >     http://iMapTools.com/geocode.php
> > >
> > > -Stephen Woodbridge
> > >  http://iMapTools.com
> > >
> >
> > Stephen,
> >
> > This is pretty impressive.  Is/can this be setup as a service, i.e.
> > GetMap by placename?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ..Tom
> >
> > =================================
> > Tom Kralidis
> > Systems Scientist
> > Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
> > Tel: (613) 947-1828
> > http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/
> > =================================
> 
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