[MapServer-users] Frontend recommendations for my new project: Serve time domain data?

[Just van den Broecke]

Hi Stefan,

My guess is, that you want to use a browser-based frontend. Then best to 
base that on Leaflet or OpenLayers. Both are pure-client JavaScript 
libraries. These libs may be bare when developing from scratch, you can 
also use a library that extends these libs (like MapStore).

Shameless plug: Wegue [1]  combines OpenLayers with VueJS. For basic 
apps the framework ishas standard components, JSON-config-based (no 
programming!), runs out-of-the box with Docker and brings no backend. 
But there are many more you can find e.g. on the OSGeo-live distro [2].

[1] https://github.com/wegue-oss/wegue
[2] https://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html#browser-facing-gis

Best,

Just van den Broecke

On 12/11/2022 08:46, Stefan Gofferje wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> After I got my first mapserver project on the road really quickly, 
> thanks to the community here, I'm working on my second one...
> 
> I'm pulling Sentinel 1 and 2 imagery of my municipality every day, 
> pushing them through some gdal magic and - at the moment - sending them 
> to a Telegram group for other SA (situational awareness), map and nature 
> nerds in my area.
> 
> I already wrote a Python script to create shape file catalogs for the 
> files including the time domain and I have a mapserver test instance 
> running.
> 
> Now I'm looking for a good frontend - or maybe I have to tinker one 
> together myself? I'd like something lightweight, docker-friendly and 
> easily customizable. I am tinkering with GeoSolutions' MapStore at the 
> moment, but while it's a really cool concept, it's not overly 
> docker-friendly when it comes to customization and it has some weird 
> quirks, probably due to it being JAVA. I'd also like to avoid PostgreSQL 
> if possible because I don't know anything about it except that upgrading 
> is a huge hassle. I'm more of a MySQL/MariaDB guy.
> 
> Any recommendations?
> 
> -Stefan
>