[postgis-users] PostGIS through xCode

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

On Friday, June 1, 2012 4:30:41 AM UTC-7, chris mollis wrote:
>
> Right.. using REST calls is the way to do that.   You'll basically need to 
> do any complex geo queries/functions in PostGIS and then return vectors of 
> lon/lat points which you then display with the MapKit apis.
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Charles Galpin wrote:
>
>> Hi Ahmad
>>
>> You won't connect to the database directly. Depending on what the data is 
>> you can use a variety of methods. Simple REST style calls to a web server 
>> which runs code to query the database and return the data could be 
>> sufficient, but for anything more complex I suggest using a WMS server like 
>> geoserver or mapserver.
>>
>> If you want your app to run on multiple platforms consider doing it in 
>> html 5.
>>
>> hth
>> charles
>>
>
CartoDB is also a good choice that is worth some investigation:

    http://cartodb.com/

They do a great job of wrapping a web-accessible API around PostGIS tables. 
The source code for the entire system is also freely available on 
GitHub---but it does take a bit of work to unbox, configure and maintain by 
yourself.


-Charlie
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