[OpenLayers-Users] adding .shp layer

[Zac Spitzer]

Mapguide Opensource is also a good option worth considering, the GUI
for authoring is a commercial product
from Autodesk, but it's very easy to use. The server runs on both
linux and windows and supports a wide range
of spatial data formats.

http://mapguide.osgeo.org/

z

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:16 AM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> You may also want to explore an OpenSource Web mapping solution, like
> MapServer,  that can create a WMS from shapefile data.
>
> David.
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:08PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
>>> I see the arcgis example in the FAQ section that uses a png layer from
>>> ArcGIS server.  But does anyone know if openlayers supports a shapefile
>>> format?
>>
>> In general, OpenLayers works with images; you can also work with vectors
>> in some formats, but the way to display a 'map' is to display it by
>> first rendering it to images.
>>
>> ESRI has a "WMS Connector" for their ArcGIS Server products, as I
>> understand it, that will allow the server to act as a WMS that
>> OpenLayers can talk to.
>>
>> Additionally, ESRI has some tools to create pre-cached version of tiles:
>> these can (as far as I know) be generated from either vector or raster
>> data: the key thing is that for OL to consume it, it has to be in either
>> an image format (WMS) or to be one of our supported vector formats (GML,
>> KML, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, etc.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> MetaCarta
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