creating a streetmap

[Hugo Hiram]

Hi

The location that I want to draw is not in the United States. I'll have 
to create it completely.

regards,
Hugo.


Bill Thoen escribió:
> I think what you want to do is download a set of TIGER data (from US Census
> Bureau - http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html) for the
> area/county of your area, and that will give you a vector layer of streets
> with their names. If you can't get them as shapefiles directly, the ogr2ogr
> conversion tool that comes with the GDAL package can convert TIGER to
> shapefile.
> 
> Then just add that data set as a layer in your .MAP file. You can use the
> shapefiles directly or import them into PostgreSQL and use them from there.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 02:38:26PM +0000, Hugo wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I've installed Apache 2 webserver, PHP 5.2, Mapserver 4.1, MapScript for PHP,
>> PostgreSQL 8.2 and PostGIS, I've seen the demos and everything seems to work
>> perfectly.
>>
>> Ok, I want to create a streetmap from a smalltown, all I have is a bunch of
>> aerial images (photos), and a small map on paper with the names of streets, etc.
>>
>> I really don't know how to start, what software do I need to use to create the
>> map and to store the spatial data on a postgresql DB?, are any of these tools
>> for windows (client) or just for Linux (on the server or client)?
>>
>> is .map the best format to work with in mapserver?
>>
>> just as extra information,  I had a few classes on ArcCatalog and ArcMap, and as
>> you can see, I didn't learn to much (just to make queries, to modify shapes, add
>> layers, etc. not very useful stuff).
>>
>> Ok, if someone could explain this to me or provide useful links it will be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> thank you very much!
>>
>> Hugo.
>>
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