[mapserver-users] New tool to check out

[Chris Stuber]

Hughes,

THis company TeleAtlas http://www.teleatlas.com
has good quality european data for most countries...

I know for sure they have data for France and
Monaco in Shapefile format.

but, (there's always a but)
it's gonna be expensive.  Just FYI

Regards,

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc
http://www.siliconmapping.com



On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Hugues Parvillers wrote:

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