[mapserver-users] New tool to check out

[Hugues Parvillers]

Hello Stephen,

tks for your answer.

I understand now !
You are 120% right when you write the biggest challenge is to find good data
!

At least, this is not easy in France and I can not understand this !



H/P

woodbri at swoodbridge.com a écrit :

> 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/
> > > =================================
> >
> >
> >