[postgis-users] OpenSource project MyGeoCloud ties PostGIS, MapServer, TileCache and OpenLayers together

[martin hoegh]

Hi Steve and thanks for checking out my project and giving suggestions!

1. There is now a default main.php in conf/
2. You didn't miss it. And you are right, I've not yet got around to
write docs. But I'll soon.
3. I've started to look at TinyOWS and MapCache. Right now I using my
home brewed WFS-T implementation in PHP, so there is on installation
requirements regarding that. But on the other side implementing wfs-t
is no trivial task and I looking at TinyOWS for a replacement or
alternative option. TileCache is used for tile caching and a hacked
version is included in the source tree (You just need to install the
required additional Python libs). I had to alter it a bit, so it would
support multiple configuration files. MapServer is used for tile
rendering through PHP-MapScript and only 5.x is supported. I've just
finished testing with PostGIS 2.x and I'll very soon start testing
with MapServer 6.x

Best regards
Martin

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2012 1:59 PM, martin hoegh wrote:
>>
>> MyGeoCloud.com is an OpenSoure project and a web service. It offers
>> geospatial storage, WMS and WFS-T services for accessing data and
>> transactions. Besides that it offers a built-in web mapping client and
>> online editing of data. But MyGeoCloud is also a platform on which you
>> can build your own location based web applications using a JavaScript
>> API.
>>
>> The core component of MyGeoCloud is the PostGIS database software,
>> which is used for storage and geospatial operations. MapServer is used
>> for map rendering and for tile caching TileCache is used. OpenLayers
>> is used for the web map clients. The WFS-T service is implemented in
>> the code base.
>>
>> The goal is a all-in-one solution for storage, geospatial operations,
>> geospatial web services and web mapping.
>>
>> Test the project here: http://beta.mygeocloud.com/ and get the source
>> code here: https://github.com/mhoegh/MyGeoCloud
>>
>> /Martin
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> This looks like a very impressive endeavor. I will give it a try shortly.
> While browsing through some of the code on github, I noticed a few things:
>
> 1. you reference to installing it say to edit conf/main.php but it is not in
> github so it is a little hard to edit it.
>
> 2. it may have missed it, but I did not see any documentation. Since this is
> a new project your focus has probably been getting it ready for release. I
> hope you will have some time to put together some basic documentation, like
> installation, configuration, what are the major modules, how do they
> communicate, etc.
>
> 3. With MapServer 6.2, you also have TinyOWS WFS-t and mapcache all in one
> package which might simplify installation and configuration in the future if
> it was wasy to migrate to or also support these as an option.
>
> Anyway, please take this as suggestions for enhancements, and they should
> not take away from the huge effort that I can see you have already put into
> building this. This is VERY cool!
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>   -Steve W
>
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