[OpenLayers-Users] MapServer / OpenLayers application launched

[Erik Uzureau]

Hello Richard,

The site looks great!

Would you be OK with us adding this site to our gallery page:
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Gallery

...?

thanks!
Erik


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Richard Marsden <richard at winwaed.com> wrote:
> (sorry for the cross-posting to the openlayers and mapserver listserver
> - I believe this is relevant to both)
>
> Thank you for helping with my beginners questions. I now have both
> MapServer and OpenLayers working for the maps on the
> http://www.ecomapcostarica.com website.
> This website documents an ecological study of a rain forest
> reforestation site in Costa Rica. University of Dallas students will be
> performing the field work as a part of their Field Ecology class. Their
> class started today and they have already posted their first blog comments.
>
> We fly on Sunday, and will be 'in the field' for about a week. We shall
> have the students blogging, as well as live map updates, and the posting
> of new panoramic photos as we build them (yes we have internet access in
> the rain forest!).  So feel free to bookmark the site and take a look
> over the next two weeks.
>
> For the map side of things, we quickly realised that Google Maps and
> Virtual Earth simply did not have the required level of detail for Costa
> Rica, so I had to create my own mapping application. I chose MapServer
> to serve the maps, but quickly discovered OpenLayers which greatly
> improved the user experience.
>
> The end result is quite a mix!  There are two main versions:
>
> http://www.ecomapcostarica.com/map/index.shtml
> http://www.ecomapcostarica.com/map/index_ve.shtml
>
> For a base map, the first map uses a SHP file of the outline of Costa
> Rica and 1st level admin boundaries delivered by MapServer via WMS. The
> second uses Virtual Earth for a base map.
>
> MapServer WMS also delivers the 'Synthetic Stream' data (also a SHP
> file) and the 'ASTER' satellite image (a GeoTIFF).
> OpenLayers brings in two KML layers that have the map data, annotation,
> and icons that we shall be adding to next week. The icons layer also has
> popups (I'm having group all 'clickable' shapes on the icons layers due
> to that bug I asked about last week).
>
> Then, just to liven things up, the survey grid is drawn at run-time by
> Javascript. This grid will have to be relocated on the first day - ie.
> recomputed/etc. So we might as well have the computation on the webpage,
> instead of using Excel/Python/whatever and a load of KML text editing.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Richard
> --
>
> Richard Marsden
> Winwaed Software Technology LLC
> http://www.winwaed.com
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