[mapserver-users] Advice for MapServer project

[Obe, Regina]

If you are checking out postgis tutorials, you might want to look at the
2007 workshop Paul did of similar vain.  The way you do things in
PostGIS and Mapserver has changed a bit between 2005 and 2007 so you
might develop some bad habits looking at the older tutorial.

http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-04/

Hope that helps,
Regina
 

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[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Fawcett,
David
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:42 AM
To: Timothy Mashford; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Advice for MapServer project

Tim, 

Take a look at the PostGIS workshop from the 2005 conference.
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/conferences/MUM3/workshop/postgis
/

Paul did an excellent job with it and I still think that it is a great
primer.  

David.


-----Original Message-----
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Mashford
Sent: Wed 2/27/2008 1:44 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Advice for MapServer project
 
Thanks to everyone for their input.

I have seen OpenLayers, I am not sure it is suitable as I really
require a zoom-box tool (not shift-click), and also a separate layer
control.

I have found GeoMoose to be fairly slow(?), and also full of features
I don't require (e.g. slide zoom), although I guess these could be
removed. The Morton County example is good.

The reason I was thinking dbox.js was that it is fast & simple. But
once I get up to that stage I will investigate all options.

Can someone just help me understand how the postgresql database could
be queried for data within a specific date range? I am thinking that
the user could specify the dates in an initialisation page, and these
dates could then be stored at hidden CGI variables (or javascript
variables?). But if the data sources are specified in the mapfile, how
do I pass the dates to postgresql?

Sorry if my lack of knowledge is showing... Thanks again for the
responses.

Tim Mashford.
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