Hi, I'm writing because I would like to know your opinion about some tools I found for generating tiles and managing geographic information, and I would like to know what's the best option.
So far, I have a PostGIS database with geographic and non-geographic information which I imported from shapefiles and other files (some of the tables have a GEOMETRY column). The data takes up 12.000+ rows. I can access this data from gis software (gvSIG, in my case), render it, modify it (the geographic data its and associated attributes)... All of this done directly on the DB. My goal now is to access this data from the web, concretely using the google maps API, so above the maps/satellite imagery from google; I'll show my data. Reading documentation and examples from this group, I've seen to manage one part of this (retrieving data from the DB with ajax, adding markers, etc). But for rendering the map, I've found some WMS tools and I don't know which one should I use. - Geoserver: It has an integrated WMS. It does openlayers but my idea isn't to use openlayers+google's imagery, it's to use google maps javascript api + my overlays - MapTiler: I haven't tested it yet. - Write my own tile-generating Servlet: I don't think that I should re- invent the wheel. For now, I've concluded that I could use geoserver's WMS to retrieve the tiles via ajax. Summarizing, my question is: Am I doing it right? Are there better tools to do what I want? Thank you all for your support. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
