[OpenLayers-Users] Newbie Questions

[Björn Harrtell]

Sorry, forgot to post to mailling list, see below for answer for this
thread.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Björn Harrtell <bjorn.harrtell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OpenLayers is a Javascript API and can thus only communicate with HTTP, so
> yes you need a web mapping server and also a WFS server (like geoserver) if
> you need access to the vector data directly.
>
> To run specific functions at PostGIS I think you need to write your own
> web service to wrap SQL in HTTP requests.
>
> /Björn
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM, osgis <osgisfyp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm new to openLayers and am curious about the exact software
> > requirements
> > for using the openLayers API.  Specifically I want to access a map from
> > PostGIS and be able to run functions I have written in PostGIS on it
> > from
> > the browser.
> >
> > Can someone tell me do I require a web mapping server such as MS4W to do
> > this? I have read some of the documents on the openLayers web site but
> > there
> > does not seem to be any that specifically answer this question.
> >
> > If anybody can give me an answer on the exact software requirements for
> > doing the above or point me in the right direction or to a good
> > tutorial, it
> > would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > E
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